Re: /etc/passwd : which software does support this ?
Remco Blaakmeer <remco@blaakmeer.student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> I am not really a programer, but I wonder how hard it would be to put
> support for these fields in all programs like login, xdm, cron, at and
> anything I am forgetting. Could this be done?
The difficulty isn't so much making the change, once (though that
can be a problem), but making the change every time something comes
from the original source, changed.
Sometimes this isn't much of a problem (maybe the source has been stable
for the last 11 years and needs a new caretaker anyways, or maybe the
original author is receptive to changes). Other times it can be a real
pain (maybe the source needs to run on 100 different operating systems
and the upstream maintainer isn't interested in code that breaks 50 of
those).
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Raul
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