Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!umich!vela!schemers
From: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: ksh/hesiod
Summary: ~ broke in ksh with hesiod
Keywords: ksh, hesiod, named, ~
Message-ID: <4825@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 16:05:15 GMT
Reply-To: schemers@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Roland Schemers III)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
Lines: 19

Hello! More and more hesiod fun for everyone!

I just noticed that the ksh ~ expansion does not seem to work with
hesiod. I logged into a system being served by hesiod, and tried
a 'echo ~someuser', where someuser is a valid user, and the ksh
just printed '~someuser'. If you just type 'echo ~' it works, but
anything else doesn't. It appears that either the ksh is directly
reading the password file, or is using the getpw routines without 
hesiod support. This is happening in 4.0/4.1 mips/vax.

Roland



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