Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:01:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: getgrent() and spaces..rr Message-ID: <199509020001.UAA06579@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <4453.809988212@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sep 1, 95 01:43:32 pm
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> > I had someone stick me in their wheel group recently and was surprised > when I still didn't appear in wheel. Further investigation revealed > that they'd stuck me in as: > > wheel:*:john,paul,george,ringo, jkh > > See that space? Well, that was enough to nip the group search in the > bud. > > My question is, before I perhaps dive and try to fix it, is if it's a > feature or a bug? Whitespace sensitivity is generally not a good > thing in configuration files, but there are limits to what one should > go through in order to deal with it, yes? > > Jordan > I hate to say it but this is standard Unix. Changing it would make it non-standard. I've always had a love-hate relationship with Unix's use of plain text database files for admin... But to change it would be to non-Unix FreeBSD. I've always preferred VMS's authorize command... Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | The postmaster always pings twice. Lakewood MicroSystems | 17 Meredith Drive, 908-389-3592 | Tinton Falls, NJ 07724 pechter@shell.monmouth.com |
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