RFE: my_getpwent that supports looking up a particular user

[Wil C. <wc...@na...>]

Unless I'm reading the code for my_getpwent wrong (and I may
be, I haven't seriously programming in Perl for a long time),
it doesn't seem that it supports looking up and returning the
information for a particular user.  I just wrote code that called
the useradmin/user-lib.pl:list_users subroutine and poked through
the entire array until it found the right user...  This is fine
until I start doing it with remote_foreign_* calls instead of just
foreign_* and start dealing with thousands of users...

So, it'd be nice to have a my_getpwent that just returns a hash
for a particular user, to avoid lots of network copying.

Wil
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