Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin
Andrey Repin
anrdaemon@yandex.ru
Thu Feb 20 17:35:00 GMT 2014
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.
> Just FYI, I succeeded in porting the Glibc getent. I will provide this
> as a standalone package ASAP, so we can start converting the service
> configuration helper scripts even before we release the new passwd/group
> code.
O.o thursday of miracles.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 20.02.2014, <21:13>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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