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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:57:24 +0400
- Subject: Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
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Greetings, Corinna Vinschen!
>> [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/getent
> That sounds pretty much like the tool we need to be able to get rid of
> the `grep /etc/passwd' stuff we have in some of the service configuration
> helper scripts. Unfortunately it's a glibc tool so we probably have to
> create our own.
> For a start it would suffice to support only passwd and group databases.
Yup, was exactly what I thought.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 19.02.2014, <23:56>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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