Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 22:07:20 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su> To: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>, guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, julian@ref.tfs.com Cc: bugs@ns1.win.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, taob@io.org Subject: Re: Guido's pwd_mkdb improvements (fwd) Message-ID: <oZetlPmWe6@ache.dialup.demos.ru> In-Reply-To: <199509251447.KAA12188@healer.com>; from Coranth Gryphon at Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:47:24 -0400 References: <199509251447.KAA12188@healer.com>
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In message <199509251447.KAA12188@healer.com> Coranth Gryphon writes: >From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> >> you can sort the passwd on uid and name before editing it, do the same >> afterwards, get a diff, change those records and then store the version >> of the passwd file the user saved (user selected order) >There is one thing that this might break (I'm not sure, but lest ye forget). >I often use the "multiple names/passwords, single uid" system. >And since the first encountered name with that uid is considered "canonical", >might an alphabetic sorting not screw things up? Yes. It screws up things. Passwd automatic sorting IS NOT ALLOWED! -- Andrey A. Chernov : And I rest so composedly, /Now, in my bed, ache@astral.msk.su : That any beholder /Might fancy me dead - FidoNet: 2:5020/230.3 : Might start at beholding me, /Thinking me dead. RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team : E.A.Poe From "For Annie" 1849
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