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On Feb 19 23:57, Andrey Repin wrote: > 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. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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