Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 04:08:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908210406030.38519-100000@toy.chip-web.com> In-Reply-To: <19990821100023.A10092@cpl.net>
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > But how does Apache know that your home directory is /disk6/shawn if > > there's no [accessible] /etc/passwd to look it up in ? :) > > Yup. :) I should have figured that out... But it also needs access to > pwd.db. Why is that? I wouldn't think the webserver could read or understand > that file. It would make more sense of Apache to use the standard system call (whatever it is) to get a user's home directory, rather than parsing /etc/passwd directly. pwd.db is the db version of passwd, and it's what the system calls use. I'm no longer sure that /etc/passwd is needed, since pwd.db is what the system uses. --Ludwig Pummer ( ludwigp@bigfoot.com ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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