From: WATANABE Hirofumi <eban@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T13:59:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7195] Re: module for unix password database tasks?

Matt Harrington <matt@msg.ucsf.edu> writes:

:i'm going through the tutorial and have in the back of my mind an idea for
:my first script.  it requires access to the unix password database along
:the lines of getpwent().  i don't see a module with this functionality in
:the library documentation.  does one exist or should i look into calling C
:from Ruby?

Use Etc module.

% ruby -r etc -e 'p Etc.getpwnam("root")'
#<Struct::Passwd name="root", passwd="x", uid=0, gid=0, gecos="", dir="/root", shell="/bin/sh">

See ext/etc/etc.txt for more information.

-- 
eban