Re: newbie to cdb

Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:44:18 +0300

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.cdb
Organization	Telecom Service, JSC
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Paul Jarc wrote:
> Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>Someone did replace /etc/passwd with a more djb-like (and envdir-like)
>>directory structure with one file per field, one directory per account.
> 
> <URL:http://home.xnet.com/~drench/userdir/>

There is another somewhat similar project exists - it's called tcb
and is the default way of storing things in Owl (Openwall.com).
Tcb splits out /etc/shadow, not /etc/passwd.

/mjt