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Re: Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin


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

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