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Date:      Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:41:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Guido's pwd_mkdb improvements (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.950924173946.16293a-100000@trepan.io.org>
In-Reply-To: <199509241950.UAA06285@gvr.win.tue.nl>

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> A simple observation: most master.passwd updates are done because
> only one line needs to be updated. So I added an option to
> pwd_mkdb that only touches a specific record.

    I read something about BSD/OS 2.0 having "incremental passwd
database rebuilding"... same thing?

> Vipw is bad in that you can't tell which records were changed.

    Can't you just sort the file (both before and after) and do a diff
on the outputs?
--
Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
System Administrator, Internex Online Inc.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"




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