[Webfunds-commits] scripts ricardian_keys

Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:12:57 +0200

--On woensdag 23 augustus 2000 12:47 -0400 Ian Grigg <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> id=$(sed -e /${pw}/'!d' -e s/.*${pw}// -e s/:.*// < /etc/passwd)

Why does a script like this need to access /etc/passwd ?

Edwin

PS: I wasn't able to figure out the inner workings of this script due to my 
limited perl parsing abilities. Or at least, I guessed it was perl 
(shouldn't there be a #/usr/bin/perl at the top then or something?)