Testers needed: New passwd/group handling in Cygwin

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Feb 14 12:55, Kurt Franke wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
> 
> > > Indeed.  After the discussion yesterday I already realized that we will
> > > need some commandline tool to request passwd and group entries.
> > > 
> > > There is a function called getpw on Linux which allows to fetch a passwd
> > > entry in the form it has in /etc/passwd:
> > > 
> > >   http://linux.die.net/man/3/getpw
> > 
> > Gosh, please ignore this function.  It's old and dangerous.  Treat this
> > mail as if I never mentioned this function, ok?
> > 
> > Corinna
> > 
> 
> Hi Corinna,
> 
> I think the function family
> 
> getpwent()
> getgrent()

Sure, but the problem is not to have functions, the problem is to have a
tool which can be used from shell scripts.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer                 cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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