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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: gryphon@healer.com (Coranth Gryphon)
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:01:07 +0100 (MET)
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> 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?

I am using the exact same scheme as used by the original pwd_mkdb. My
patches thus won't break something that wasn't broken before (modulo
bugs in my improvements ;-))

-Guido