[Webfunds-commits] scripts ricardian_keys

Edwin Woudt edwin@woudt.nl
Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:12:57 +0200


--On woensdag 23 augustus 2000 12:47 -0400 Ian Grigg <iang@cypherpunks.ai> 
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?)