AnyDat...:Passwd(3pm)

💖 Passwd — tied hash and DBI access to passwd files 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to AnyDat...:Passwd(3pm) from the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew ✨ this little icon does passwd files, and it does them two ways. let's get into it 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

two whole vibes, pick ur fighter:

 use AnyData;
 my $users = adTie( 'Passwd', '/etc/passwd' );
 print $users->{jdoe}->{homedir};
 # ... other tied hash operations

OR 💅

 use DBI
 my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:AnyData:');
 $dbh->func('users','Passwd','/etc/passwd','ad_catalog');
 my $g7 = $dbh->selectall_arrayref( qq{
     SELECT username, homedir FROM users WHERE GID = '7'
 });
 # ... other DBI/SQL operations

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this module hands u a tied hash interface AND a DBI/SQL interface to passwd files. that's it, that's the whole thing, and it's giving versatility fr fr 😭

all u gotta do is say the format is 'Passwd' and hand over the name of the file, and the modules will go ahead and build a hash table for u with these column names:

• username
• passwd
• UID
• GID
• fullname
• homedir
• shell

and the way that username is treated as a key column?? obsessed. 🔑

heads up bestie: this module is a submodule of the AnyData.pm and DBD::AnyData.pm modules. so if u want the further details, u gotta go read their documentation. iykyk 💜

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👑 AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT 👑

copyright 2000, Jeff Zucker <jeff@vpservices.com> all rights reserved

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and that's the whole page, no cap 🎀 this was AnyDat...:Passwd(3pm) from perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-08-06 — stan a classic, bye bestie 🦋✨💖