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From: Julien Gabel <jpeg@thilelli.net>
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Subject: Request to add a new tool: getent(1).
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>Number:         79903
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Request to add a new tool: getent(1).
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Apr 14 11:10:16 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Thu Nov 03 19:41:59 GMT 2005
>Last-Modified:  Thu Nov 03 19:41:59 GMT 2005
>Originator:     Julien Gabel
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD titeuf.thilelli.net 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 13 06:07:41 CEST 2005 root@titeuf.thilelli.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TITEUF i386
>Description:
When available, i think that getent(1) is a very valuable little tool which permits to retrieve information from administrative database, using /etc/nsswitch.conf as lookup configuration file.
Some information can be found at:
 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getent&manpath=SunOS+5.9
 http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?getent++NetBSD-current

And the NetBSD implementation:
 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/getent/
>How-To-Repeat:
n.a.
>Fix:
n.a.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: maxim 
State-Changed-When: Thu Nov 3 19:40:50 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Superseded by bin/88460. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=79903 
>Unformatted:
