Arthur de Jong wrote: > Solaris (at least from 2.6) has getent but there may be some systems > without. (so it's not a GNU-only thing) A simple note that not all systems have getent and there is all of this chatter about it. :-) Just so there is a concrete example, HPUX does not have getent. But since the OP wanted something in a Debian install script they should have no restriction using it. Bob
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