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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: Guido's pwd_mkdb improvements (fwd)
To: ache@astral.msk.su (=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?=)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 18:59:24 +0100 (MET)
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=?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= wrote:
> 
> In message <199509241950.UAA06285@gvr.win.tue.nl> Guido van Rooij
>     writes:
> 
> >A simple observation: most master.passwd updates are done because
> >only one line needs to be updated. So I added an option to
> >pwd_mkdb that only touches a specific record.
> 
> Does it handle in right way users with different names but the same uid?
> I remember 1.x one-record-update version update only first one
> in this case... I.e. how store-by-uid works in this case?
> 

Yes. It does handle them correctly. The username is used as the identifier,
not the uid.

-Guido