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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