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NAME

DBD::Sys::Plugin::Unix::Groups - provides a table containing operating system user groups

SYNOPSIS

  $groups = $dbh->selectall_hashref("select * from grent", "groupname");

ISA

  DBD::Sys::Plugin::Unix::Groups;
  ISA DBD::Sys::Table

DESCRIPTION

This module provides the table grent filled the data from the group database group(5).

COLUMNS

groupname

Name of the group

grpass

Encrypted password of the group

gid

Numerical group id of the users primary group

members

Numerical count of the members in this group

METHODS

get_table_name

Returns 'grent'.

get_col_names

Returns the column names of the table as named in "Columns"

collect_data

Retrieves the data from the group database and put it into fetchable rows.

PREREQUISITES

Perl support for the functions getgrent, setgrent, endgrent is required to provide data for the table.

AUTHOR

    Jens Rehsack                        Alexander Breibach
    CPAN ID: REHSACK
    rehsack@cpan.org                    alexander.breibach@googlemail.com
    http://www.rehsack.de/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Some advisories how to implement the data collecting safer and more portable was provided by Ashish SHUKLA <ashish@freebsd.org>.

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.

SUPPORT

Free support can be requested via regular CPAN bug-tracking system. There is no guaranteed reaction time or solution time, but it's always tried to give accept or reject a reported ticket within a week. It depends on business load. That doesn't mean that ticket via rt aren't handles as soon as possible, that means that soon depends on how much I have to do.

Business and commercial support should be acquired from the authors via preferred freelancer agencies.