Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:27:23 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: endianess of /etc/pwd.db Message-ID: <3E94AC5B.1B93F2FB@mindspring.com> References: <31398.1049876261@critter.freebsd.dk> <20030409130718.GF78831@locore.ca>
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Jake Burkholder wrote: > Apparently, On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 10:17:41AM +0200, > Poul-Henning Kamp said words to the effect of; > > Kris ran into this problem: copying a /etc/pwd.db from one endianess > > to another gave him really weird uid/gid numbers. > > > > The DB code itself is endianess-agnostic, so the first warning one > > gets is the weird UID/GID. > > > > Should we make the endianess of this file explicit to prevent this > > pit-fall for our users ? The cost would be less than epsilon. > > Yes, please. Sendmail databases have the same problem (mkdb). Might want to coordinate with those people, if they already have a solution, or if you really want to create a general solution (FWIW). -- Terry
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