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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 11:07:13PM -0700 I heard the voice of
Alfred Perlstein, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> That's so weird, I just wrote a program that does sort of the same
> thing for someone a week or two ago.  But all it did was call
> getpwent in a loop and spew out the results in master.passwd format.

Yah, I almost went that way, but then it only works with /etc/spwd.db,
not some arbitrary file, so it's less useful in cross-machine work.
Besides, it's just not cool enough     ;)


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Matthew Fuller     (MF4839)   |  fullermd@over-yonder.net
Systems/Network Administrator |  http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/

"The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is because I
      haven't figured out how to light the middle yet"