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From: Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@healer.com>
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To: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl, julian@ref.tfs.com
Subject: Re: Guido's pwd_mkdb improvements (fwd)
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From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com>
> you can sort the passwd on uid  and name before editing it,  do the same
> afterwards,  get a diff, change those records and then store the version
> of the passwd file the user saved (user selected order)

There is one thing that this might break (I'm not sure, but lest ye forget).

I often use the "multiple names/passwords, single uid" system.
And since the first encountered name with that uid is considered "canonical",
might an alphabetic sorting not screw things up?

-coranth


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