From: "Aleksi Niemelä" <aleksi.niemela@...>
Date: 2000-12-14T15:37:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:7199] Re: module for unix password database tasks?

> I forgot to mention that I read from a NIS database, so 
> /etc/passwd on my 
> clients isn't a complete list of accounts.  thanks for the suggestion 
> though.

I've never worked with NIS or unix password in general, but I thought this
old extension for shadow passwords on linux might give you some idea how to
implement what you need:

ftp://ftp.netlab.co.jp/pub/lang/ruby/contrib/ruby-shadow-1.4.tar.gz

It contains code like

  entry = sgetspent(STR2CSTR(str));

	- Aleksi