On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:56:34 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > a flat text file akin to /etc/passwd is not readable. xml is readable. > > ESR's case study about the password file format seems to disagree: > http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch05s01.html#id2901332 > > I think the name:password:uid:gid:gecos:directory:shell format is > readable well enough for human eyes. Certainly it is machine readable; > even with standard tools like fgetpwent(3) (or its equivalent in other > programming languages). Alternatively we could go for whitespace-separated, like fstab. Column aligning even more. -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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