getting users IDs list

[mah at jump-ing.de (Markus Hitter)]

Am 04.03.2004 um 06:58 schrieb Rodney Dyer:

> On other *nix systems they are found in the /etc folder.  OS X has the
> proper files there, but user land stuff is not included in either the 
> groups
> or passwd files.

What about Active Directory, NIS, LDAP, ... ? Just have a look with 
your Directory Access app (<file:///Applications/Utilities/Directory 
Access.app>)

There are many solutions nowadays (*sigh*), lookupd tried to make a 
single service for all of them. See "man lookupd". No detailed 
knowledge here, sorry.


> They are stored in data files in the netinfo db
> (/var/db/netinfo/local.nidb/Status.XXXX where XXXX is some number).  
> These
> are binary files and you must have root (or sudo) priv to get to them.

Use "nidump passwd /" instead. No root privileges needed.


Markus

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