On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:08:13AM -0800, Drake Wyrm wrote: > I've got a wild idea. How about if you just use a couple of flat files, > one for the users and one for the groups. For the users, each line would > contain the username, default UID and GID, maybe some comments, a > default home directory, and a default shell. That pretty much contains > all the basics you need for creating a user, and could be accurately > parsed by all kinds of simple tools, such as awk or grep. If you didn't > want to rely on other binaries or libraries, you could use the read > built-in and some shell magic to parse it. Simple! Works for me. Get cracking. :) /me doesn't really care all that much, as long as whatever defined format is used is extensible/sane ~harring
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