System.Posix.User is inadequate

John Goerzen jgoerzen at complete.org
Wed Aug 23 16:59:29 EDT 2006


There are several problems with this module:

1) There is no way to get all users/groups on the system (getpwent)

2) The UserEntry type does not reflect the Gecos field (pw_gecos)

3) The UserEntry type does not reflect the password field (pw_passwd)

4) The GroupEntry type does not reflect the gr_passwd field

This renders is unfortunately useless for some very basic Unix tasks.

Is there still time to fix this for 6.6?




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