Lintian tag: maintainer-script-should-not-parse-etc-passwd-or-group

Type: warning

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

The maintainer script appears to manually parse /etc/passwd or /etc/group
instead of using the getent(1) utility to display entries.

This bypasses the Name Service Switch (NSS), avoiding querying centralised
or networked user databases such as LDAP, etc.

Please refer to the getent(1) manual page and the nss(5) manual page for
details.

Visibility: warning
Show-Always: no
Check: scripts

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