get rid of getpwent?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 13 21:41, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Oh, hmm.  Well, it might be possible, but somehow I'm not excited by the
> > idea.  While it looks like getpwent is mostly used for this purpose, you
> > don't really know it.  I think I'll try to implement it fully and then
> > let the admin decide what to allow.
> 
> Configurable would be OK of course.  I'm not sure when I'll get around
> to testing the new snapshot, but I can certainly try how long it takes
> when I do "~<TAB>" in the shell.  IIRC, mkpasswd took several minutes to
> pull down the domain accounts (I've then deleted all but the handful
> that was used for network shares).

Keep in mind, the search in getpwent/getgrent is not yet implemented.
You only get what the application cached so far.


Corinna

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