Hi Theo, Theo de Raadt wrote on Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 11:37:21AM -0600: > Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> That utility is grossly disgusting. It's a pity we can't delete >> it completely [...] > Why not? Well, in a non-YP environment, grep ^foobar /etc/group is just fine, but in a YP environment, i'm not aware of any useable replacement for groupinfo(8): schwarze@iris $ grep mail /etc/group schwarze@iris $ ypmatch mail group mail:*:8:mail schwarze@iris $ groupinfo mail name mail passwd * gid 8 members mail schwarze@iris $ grep dialer /etc/group dialer:*:117:schwarze schwarze@iris $ ypmatch dialer group Can't match key dialer in map group.byname. Reason: No such key in map schwarze@iris $ groupinfo dialer name dialer passwd * gid 117 members schwarze schwarze@iris $ The only useful parts are userinfo(8) and groupinfo(8), and only in YP environments. > :-) Oh hell, in case we all agree that i can delete all the rest, i volunteer to rewrite userinfo(8) and groupinfo(8) from scratch, how difficult can it be. Yours, Ingo
