[fpc-pascal] libc unit and FreeBSD
Graeme Geldenhuys
graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 13:37:21 CET 2008
On 14/01/2008, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> > Does anybody know if unix type OS's allow normal (general) users to
> > read those files from /etc?
>
> Yes, but they they do not necessarily contain any useful information.
> The actually used information may be on an ldap server, in a netinfo
> database, on an NIS server, on a SAMBA server, on a Windows Domain
> Controller, ... That's the whole point of the plugin system used by
> libc.
Ah, now I get it. Thanks.
Regards,
- Graeme -
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