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		thwarted on Sept 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Unix shells are generally not viable access contro... …and being structured, the passwd file content should be accessed with the getpwent family of functions.

bhawks on Sept 19, 2023 [–]

Which unfortunately are not thread safe.

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