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user names
How about this? Use stat to get the UID for the file and then call getpwent to convert UID into a name: #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <pwd.h> struct passwd *userinfo; struct stat buf; char *filespec = "/usr/home/example"; stat(filespec, &buf); userinfo =... -
Help with parsing the string
The strtok function is probably the best approach: char *username; char *password; char *instance; char yourString[500]; strcpy(yourString, passedConnectString); username = strtok(yourString, "/@"); password = strtok(NULL, "/@"); instance = strtok(NULL, "/@")...
