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# New Ticket Created by Jan Dubois # Please include the string: [perl #53500] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=53500 > I did look at op/pwent.t today (I'm running a subset of 5.6.1 tests against 5.8.9-tobe), and I noticed that at least this checkin message is somewhat misleading: > Change 32200 by rgs@stcosmo on 2007/10/29 10:49:13 > > Leopard has more standard /etc/passwd files than previous > versions of darwin. Thanks to David Morel for testing. The /etc/passwd file always had the standard format on OS X, but op/pwent.t was using /usr/bin/nidump to get at the "real" passwd information (the /etc/passwd file is only used when you run in single- user mode, and doesn't include all the local users you add via the UI). Since nidump is no longer included in 10.5, the test is falling back to reading /etc/passwd which is in the same format as it is on other systems. Since there are more than 25 entries in /etc/passwd on OS X 10.5, these entries will match the information returned by the DirectoryService and the test continues to pass. It is not really testing if getpwent() can retrieve all the actual users on the system though. I think a proper replacement for reading `nidump passwd .` would be to parse the output of `dscl . -readall /users`. I won't have time to do this, but I thought I would at least post the results of my investigation.