you've specified a directory. It is intended to be used in building
custom releases over NFS where locking may be unreliable at best and
there is no contention that the locking is designed to arbitrate.
Other uses of this flag are discouraged. Document same in usage and
man page (including the warning about unwise).
Sponsored by: Timing Solutions
(1) use strlcpy instead of strncpy since the use here of the latter
was incorrect.
(2) Move 'N' case into proper sorted order (sorted the same way that
ls sorts its args).
do not add the "\xFF" "VERSION" key --- it should only be added once
ALL entries have been updated.
While I'm here, correct the logic that detects whether or not the
user-ID has changed so that it works even if all entries have not
yet been updated to the new format.
Users missing-in-action were
Reported by: tjr, Vallo Kallaste <vallo@estcard.ee>,
leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
at least one consumer outside of libc and pwd_mkdb.
Adjust the versioning in libc and pwd_mkdb accordingly.
named was the application affected, and that fact was first
Reported by: Zherdev Anatoly <tolyar@mx.ru>
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
family of functions using the new nsdispatch(3) core. Remove
arbitrary size limits when using the thread-safe versions.
= Re-implement the traditional getpwent(3)/getgrent(3) functions on
top of the thread-safe versions.
= Update the on-disk format of the hashed version of the passwd(5)
databases to allow for versioned entries. The legacy version is
`3'. (Don't ask.)
= Add support for version `4' entries in the passwd(5) database.
Entries in this format are identical to version 3 entries except
that all integers are stored as 32-bit integers in network byte
order (big endian).
= pwd_mkdb is updated to generate both version 3 and version 4
entries.
Sponsored by: DARPA, Network Associates Laboratories
since that is what we use now and this insulates us from any time_t
tweaks here. We can define a record format that uses 64 bit times if/when
we need to.
configure FreeBSD so that various databases such as passwd and group can be
looked up using flat files, NIS, or Hesiod.
= Hesiod has been added to libc (see hesiod(3)).
= A library routine for parsing nsswitch.conf and invoking callback
functions as specified has been added to libc (see nsdispatch(3)).
= The following C library functions have been modified to use nsdispatch:
. getgrent, getgrnam, getgrgid
. getpwent, getpwnam, getpwuid
. getusershell
. getaddrinfo
. gethostbyname, gethostbyname2, gethostbyaddr
. getnetbyname, getnetbyaddr
. getipnodebyname, getipnodebyaddr, getnodebyname, getnodebyaddr
= host.conf has been removed from src/etc. rc.network has been modified
to warn that host.conf is no longer used at boot time. In addition, if
there is a host.conf but no nsswitch.conf, the latter is created at boot
time from the former.
Obtained from: NetBSD
and gids bigger than 16 bits. Added checks for uids and gids that are
bigger than 32 bits.
Approved by: jkh (partly, this fix is bigger than I first intended)
the environment. This allows big ID warnings to be suppressed for
vipw and chpass as well.
Since the environment variable test is only performed for callers
of pw_scan() that do not set pw_big_ids_warning, the test can still
be overriden. Currently, chpass and pwd_mkdb are the only users
of pw_scan() and neither of them overrides the environment variable
test.
happy with how this end up and will re-visit the entire empty field
problem, but this patch solves the NIS problem for now.
Submitted by: Dan Nelson <dan@emsphone.com>
PR: 14865,14984
track.
The Id line is normally at the bottom of the main comment block in the
man page, separated from the rest of the manpage by an empty comment,
like so;
.\" $Id$
.\"
If the immediately preceding comment is a @(#) format ID marker than the
the $Id$ will line up underneath it with no intervening blank lines.
Otherwise, an additional blank line is inserted.
Approved by: bde
in getopt(). The code was there, the means to use it wasn't.
Also update the usage() statment to reflect reality.
PR: bin/9248
Submitted by: Jos Backus <jbackus@plex.nl>
Forgotten By: dillon
Have pwd_mkdb lock the source file while rebuilding the database. When
called by programs such as vipw, the source file is a temporary file and
this does not conflict with the lock on /etc/master.passwd already held
by vipw. When run manually, however, master.passwd is typically specified
as the argument and the locking prevents other programs from messing with
master.passwd during the database rebuild.
Also pwd_mkdb uses a blocking exclusive lock as it may be called from
a script. The -N option was added to cause pwd_mkdb to get the lock
non-blocking and exit with an error if the attempt fails, again useful
for scripts.
the password file into /etc/master.passwd and optional (-p) into
/etc/passwd. Enable this feature with the compile
option -DPASSWD_IGNORE_COMMENTS.
The character `#' introduces a comment. Leading spaces and tabs are
ignored: '^[ \t]*#.*\n$'
Count an empty line - only spaces, tabs or newline - also as a comment.
An empty line at the bottom of /etc/master.passwd is a common
novice error and increased my mail load: '^[ \t]*\n$'
