Bug#280014: kdelibs-bin: Does not work on nis clients configured with + in the /etc/passwd file

[Anton Ivanov <arivanov@sigsegv.cx>]

Christoffer Sawicki wrote:

> > --all-users option enumerates from /etc/passwd which is plain and
> > completely wrong for any network config. If users are taken from
> > NIS, LDAP, etc it does not work. This definitely breaks acpid button
> > functions on NIS clients.
> >    
>
> Just for clarification, this is about `dcop' right?
>
> */ Christoffer Sawicki <qerub@home.se>
>
>
>  
Yes.  Sorry, I thought I put it in the report. It is dcop.

Off the top of my head another kde program that has to enumerate all 
users and does it successfully is kdm. It may be a good idea to reuse 
whatever it uses in dcop (if possible of course).

A.