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Subject: Re: getgrent() and spaces..rr
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 20:01:23 -0400 (EDT)
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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

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