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On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:56:34 +0100 |
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Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > a flat text file akin to /etc/passwd is not readable. xml is readable. |
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> ESR's case study about the password file format seems to disagree: |
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> http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s01.html#id2901332 |
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> I think the name:password:uid:gid:gecos:directory:shell format is |
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> readable well enough for human eyes. Certainly it is machine readable; |
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> even with standard tools like fgetpwent(3) (or its equivalent in other |
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> programming languages). |
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Alternatively we could go for whitespace-separated, like fstab. Column |
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aligning even more. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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