Midnight Commander 4.6.0: Menu "FIles"->"chOwn". Bug or feature ?

[Pavel Roskin]

On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Antony Y. Bolotin wrote:

> Hello :)
>
> I have my own authorization system, based on NSS mechanism of "glibc" and SQL
> database. So I have not any records in "/etc/passwd", "/etc/group" and
> "/etc/shadow" files for some users. All programs (like chown, ls, login etc.)
> works with it correctly. But "mc" does not show those users and groups.

You didn't explain where you don't see those users and groups.

> I think it read "/etc/passwd" and "/etc/group" directly instead of using
> "getpwent" and "getgrent" functions calls. Why ? It's a bug or a feature ? If
> it's a feature, how it can work with NIS ?

No, as you can see in the code, mc uses getpwent and getgrent.

Some data is cached and then used in the file listings.  Try using File ->
"Advanced chown" from the menu and see if the usernames are shown there.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin