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Add Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>'s report on the pw update.

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<task>Support for other architectures (ARM, MIPS, PPC).</task>
</help>
</project>
<project cat='bin'>
<title>Cleanup on <tt>pw(8)</tt></title>
<contact>
<person>
<name>
<given>Baptiste</given>
<common>Daroussin</common>
</name>
<email>bapt@FreeBSD.org</email>
</person>
</contact>
<body>
<p><tt>pw(8)</tt> is the utility to create, delete, and
modify users. This tool has remained mostly untouched since
its creation, but needed updating.</p>
<p>Lots of cleanup has been done:</p>
<ul>
<li>Deduplication of code</li>
<li>Reduction of complexity by splitting into smaller
functions</li>
<li>Reuse of existing code in base:
<ul>
<li><tt>sbuf(9)</tt> for buffered string</li>
<li><tt>stringlist(3)</tt> for string arrays</li>
<li><tt>gr_utils</tt> (from libutil) instead of homemade
group manipulation</li>
<li><tt>strptime(3)</tt> to parse time strings</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Added validation on most input options, fixing some
serious bugs due to bad usage of <tt>atoi(3)</tt></li>
<li>many regression tests added to test for regressions due to
all of these changes</li>
</ul>
<p>A new feature was added:
<tt>pw -R <u>rootdir</u> <i>cmd</i></tt> which allows
cross manipulation of users.</p>
</body>
<help>
<task>
<p>More cleanup.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>More regression tests.</p>
</task>
<task>
<p>LDAP support?</p>
</task>
</help>
</project>
</report>