Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: sorted /etc/passwd ? Message-ID: <429@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 22:41:19 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.429 Posted: Wed Feb 6 22:41:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 05:26:35 EST References: <117@wkdaisy.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 16 > At Warwick we have an indexed password file. The password file itself has > fixed length records, and there are two other files which act as indexes into > this by uid and by name. > > This means that the only programs which *have* to be recompiled with the > new library routines are those which modify the password file, or that use > the shell field, since this is now terminated by a colon instead of a newline. Programs which still rummage through the password file themselves, or which use "getpw", will have to be rewritten (they should have been rewritten *long* ago!) and recompiled. (The System V Release 2 "ls" still does this, so there are probably several other fossils lying around various flavors of UNIX.) Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy