From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 2 11:02:54 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id LAA01299 for current-outgoing; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 11:02:54 -0700 Received: from shell.monmouth.com (shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA01293 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 11:02:53 -0700 Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00325 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:05:31 -0400 From: Pechter Message-Id: <199509021805.OAA00325@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: re: password file/group file To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:05:30 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 837 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > I hate to say it but this is standard Unix. Changing it would make it > > > non-standard. > > > > That seems to be the general sentiment and so it will remain > > unchanged. No skin off my nose - now I don't need to try to > > fix it! :-) > > Perhaps some ``groupcheck'' tool that validates the databases? Perhaps pwck and grpck wouldn't be bad to have. They are pretty much AT&T SVR5ish -- but could be useful. Are they spec'd in any Posix/Spec1170 stuff? 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 |