From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1008 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2014 19:38:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 985 invoked by uid 89); 20 Feb 2014 19:38:17 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: calimero.vinschen.de Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:38:16 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 430AD52041D; Thu, 20 Feb 2014 20:38:14 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 19:38:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Subject: HEADSUP: New getent tool to read passwd and group data Message-ID: <20140220193814.GU2246@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VtO80Grm6b12p/hj" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SW-Source: 2014-02/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 --VtO80Grm6b12p/hj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 1018 Hi guys, I just uploaded the new getent package and sent the announcement, I'm repeating myself here because this is really important and I'm not sure everybody on this list reads the cygwin and cygwin-announce lists. In short, we want to get rid of the requirement to maintain /etc/passwd and /etc/group files, per http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-02/msg00306.html In future, tools and scripts, especially service installation helper scripts like my ssh-host-config, must not rely on being able to grep user and group information from /etc/passwd and /etc/group. Rather, the scripts should be changed to use the getent tool as soon as possible. Usage for checking passwd: $ getent passwd I'd like to ask all maintainers providing such scripts, including myself, to look into their packages and fix them to use the getent tool. Thanks, Corinna --=20 Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat --VtO80Grm6b12p/hj Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJTBlmmAAoJEPU2Bp2uRE+gyRMP+QEtCu2nfqdTxE4daedHpuDs Lu1kymlizpyfExq8VdQmfNbKplbACiVInVa3Q/s/AMFXujL24mVOWrT5bvdEyIT1 mv5E22gZrjWtN2Av/i/OJnD6xa1/hsJMCAQFQzbbljyOCrUKzuoGwvbvfsqnrGhu a5mq9ccsdFUcW6/S2lXj7xfdHdF0dg3LHVIirxq18gXksizTxJ5C1zo7ZjdH0j1W jO0jCngwNOX1wX8U+rGg8zGHZyZidb341pjgLeQlrYieUnvIz4pvuaB7nrVSJ7fu zHsCmWcDl8m6+oJQAe+GLzK3okNYRKTr1qx8dqXpvKszWUucG670/onOeI9jSp// /o9IDHdCcnGJTvaRrcXfDdeJrtQUAbMwsMQsX1Tfa3Nacp/ExlcD1qRISY49eXhJ tn0T/qgZZT/rRe1EYHV1YozdLv/eVdClyqqKj4aa9KSpnwjoUlCdysIcKMLCzuZp AaUjYIbi0oGOybCyRYF0ZhdSGg/HqHBRooQtWzF5CIhig4g5kBCsfJ1NEvK0yrRU rZQZ9dWcOGS0lf9uCjR4FmsfdPNSOUucl/96RtnQeJrltO8LLG+BgslPek1xURKO rsJnTOfL4JBKP6IaQVwMV7B0Sns9oApBfALwW7NYNJ6XgoFU2WcGMFQzgfqBu/YI xPIZFzkPEc5I1y8T5wPA =j2Ed -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VtO80Grm6b12p/hj--