[FreeNX-kNX] Bug/suggestion

[Matthew S. Harris]

Hello,

The nxserver and nxloadconfig scripts, in a number of places, do variants of

   getent passwd | egrep -q "^$USERNAME:"

to determine whether the given user exists.  But when this is run on a 
network with a large number of users, fetching the entire user list over 
the network can be very slow.  In my case, the user list is silently 
truncated after a point, so it may not even find the user.

Better is simply to

   getent passwd "$USERNAME" 2>&1 >/dev/null

This still returns true when the user exists, can be much faster, and 
actually works for me.

Great product.  Thanks.


Matthew Harris