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27.0.50; Add passwd backups to etc-passwd-generic-mode |
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Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:34:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
Tags: patch
I don't know why backups /etc/passwd- use the suffix ‘-’ instead of ‘~’
but comparing these files with their backups I noticed the difference
in their font-lock highlighting, thus this patch:
diff --git a/lisp/generic-x.el b/lisp/generic-x.el
index 014379fba9..dd61402015 100644
--- a/lisp/generic-x.el
+++ b/lisp/generic-x.el
@@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ etc-passwd-generic-mode
'("^\\([^:]+\\):\\([^:]*\\):\\([0-9]+\\):\\(.*\\)$"
(1 font-lock-type-face)
(4 font-lock-variable-name-face))))
- '("/etc/passwd\\'" "/etc/group\\'")
+ '("/etc/passwd-?\\'" "/etc/group-?\\'" "/etc/shadow-?\\'")
(list
(function
(lambda ()
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Re: bug#34225: 27.0.50; Add passwd backups to etc-passwd-generic-mode |
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Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:19:39 +0200 |
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>>> I don't know why backups /etc/passwd- use the suffix '-' instead of '~'
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>> It does? I seem to be unable to reproduce this:
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>> (make-backup-file-name "/etc/passwd")
>> => "/etc/passwd~"
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>> What am I missing?
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> These are non-Emacs backups. See eg "man 5 shadow".
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> /etc/shadow-
> Backup file for /etc/shadow.
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> Note that this file is used by the tools of the shadow toolsuite,
> but not by all user and password management tools.
Yes, and "man 5 passwd" shows the same:
/etc/passwd-
Backup file for /etc/passwd.
So I installed the patch to master.
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