From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: noel.hunt@gmail.com (Noel Hunt) Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:07:46 +1100 Subject: [TUHS] History of passwd fullname/info/"gecos" field (was Re: pre-UNIX legacy in UNIX?) In-Reply-To: <1513722635.2334092.1210504848.09B5B6C0@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1513722635.2334092.1210504848.09B5B6C0@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 9:30 AM, Random832 wrote: > AUSAM contains extensive modifications to the code around the passwd > handling - it uses a binary hashtable-based passwd database, with separate > first and last name fields and a "staff or student number" (referred to in > code as "other"). > ​And I have a dim memory that when we started using Eight Edition (at Basser) the password file was a mounted process.​ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: