Re: [Nano-devel] getpwent()

[Chris Allegretta]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 12:44:51AM +0000, Simon Arlott wrote:
> rcfile.c uses information from getpwent() to find the user's home dir,
> according to the getpwent(3) man page this uses /etc/passwd
> 
> The systems here use NIS, so there is no /etc/passwd entry for my username so 
> this fails meaning nano can't find my home dir to read my .nanorc file.

Hi Simon,

        getpwent() should search NIS depending on the implementation.  I 
noticed a system here reported similar errors until I added a 
compatibility line to /etc/passwd:
+::0:0:::

There is probably an nsswitch setting to fix this without using the + 
line.  What type of system is this?

Please let me know if this doesn't fix the problem.

Chris A
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