infos = Information about the passwd plugin is in keys below
infos/author = Thomas Waser thoma.nosp@m.s.wa.nosp@m.ser@l.nosp@m.ibel.nosp@m.ektra.nosp@m..org
infos/licence = BSD
infos/needs =
infos/provides = storage/passwd
infos/recommends =
infos/placements = getstorage setstorage
infos/status = maintained reviewed conformant compatible coverage specific unittest tested nodep libc configurable experimental limited
infos/metadata =
infos/description = storage plugin for passwd files

This plugin parses passwd files, e.g. /etc/passwd.

Implementation Details

If present, the not-posix compliant fgetpwent function will be used to read the file supplied by the resolver, otherwise getpwent will be used. For writing, if present, putpwent will be used, if not a simple implementation writing straight to the config file.

Configuration

If the config key index is set to name passwd entries will be sorted by name, if not set or set to uid passwd entries will be sorted by uid

Fields

gecos contains the full name of the account
gid contains the accounts primary group id
home contains the path to the accounts home directory
shell contains the accounts default shell
uid contains the accounts uid
name contains the account name

Usage

kdb mount /etc/passwd system/passwd passwd index=name
kdb export system/passwd/root

gecos = root
gid = 0
home = /root
passwd = x
shell = /bin/zsh
uid = 0