Deepak Joshi wrote: > How can i get the user name from uid in kernel space. Do you really need to know from kernel space? You have to open /etc/passwd and parse yourself in your kernel code. What to do if a program runs inside chroot() environment and unable to access /etc/passwd from your kernel code? What to do if the system uses LDAP and doesn't use /etc/passwd, do you want to write kernel version of LDAP client? It's so painful and dangerous. You still want to do it from kernel? Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
