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


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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