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+> I had to guess at the motivation for this patch, which is never the best
+> position for a patch to leave its receiver in.
+>
+> I guess that getent is a little faster than running perl to do the same
+> thing. And, getent seems to always be available, at least on debian.
+>
+> So, applied, with some doubt. [[done]] --[[Joey]]