Re: iterating over /etc/group

teo@gecadsoftware.com writes: > On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Arcady Genkin wrote: > > > Does PHP provide no high-level means of iterating over the UNIX > > /etc/group file, a la getgrent() C function? The task is to figure > > out all groups that a user is in on a system with PHP in _safe mode_ > > (hence, cannot read from /etc/group directly). > > Am I overlooking something? > > > system ("/usr/bin/id $user -G"); Thanks, but this would not work in safe mode. I solved the problem by having a cron job making a local copy of /etc/group once in a while; my script then goes through it line by line to extract the groups. But this is a hack... I could, of course, install `id' in the safe_mode_exec_dir, but the sys admin is rather reluctant to have too many executables in there, and I understand him. I just wish that PHP had a posix_getgrent() function. Maybe I should file a feature request... I'll go do that now. -- Arcady Genkin i=1; while 1, hilb(i); i=i+1; end