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On 15 Dec 2015 16:00, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:56:34 +0100 Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > >>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > |
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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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we cannot because whitespace is valid, and we use it already in fields |
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-mike |
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