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Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?

From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 13:10:52 +0100
Subject: Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
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On Jan 31 23:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:13:49PM -0500, tednolan@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >Maybe an /etc/nsswitch.conf to choose the desired behavior?
> 
> Interesting idea!  I like it because it's Linux-like and potentially
> useful in other situations.

Yeah, that sounds like a plan.  It doesn't automatically solve the
problem of how to read the passwd and group files, but we could utilze
this.  Something like this:

  passwd: files ad	# Files prefered, fallback to AD/SAM
  group:  ad		# AD/SAM only


Corinna

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References:
- Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
  - From: Max Polk
- Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
  - From: tednolan
- Re: How big are your /etc/passwd and /etc/group files?
  - From: Christopher Faylor

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