From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1743 invoked from network); 9 Jul 1999 15:53:54 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 9 Jul 1999 15:53:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 8075 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 1999 15:53:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 7090 Received: (qmail 8065 invoked from network); 9 Jul 1999 15:53:34 -0000 Message-ID: <37861AE2.8922B5FB@thoth.u-net.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:53:06 +0100 From: Oliver Kiddle X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: completions for su and implicit fg/bg References: <9907091447.AA17052@ibmth.df.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Peter Stephenson wrote: > You're right, I've removed that, but we need to handle other people's > passwords better --- I'd be tempted to use perl. What's wrong with it at the moment other than that it'll need a minor change for anyone using NIS? I'd prefer to avoid perl if at all possible because it isn't always installed everywhere and can take a while to start-up on a slow computer. If you're concerned that egrep may return more than one match, sed can be used instead. Oliver Kiddle