On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:28:21 -0700
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Mike Kelly wrote:
> >  All the files are handled like other files in cascading profiles.
> > Each line in the file is either a shell-style comment, or of the
> > form: "key: value". The keys are: uid, shell, home, groups,
> > comment, and gid.
> 
> I'd prefer that the format be key=value for easier use by bash, as
> pretty much everything else in profiles is bash.

I would as well, since my code is written written in bash and that
would make it easier on me. I had tried to do it that way before,
but some folks suggested changing it to what it is now, although I
really forget why.

Only issue I can think of is that we'd have to be sure to pick key
names that don't conflict with bash variables like UID and SHELL, which
shouldn't really be that hard, so I'm sure there had to be some
stronger reason to not make it shell variables... I'll dig through logs
and try to figure out what it was.

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Mike Kelly
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