Comments in the roles file

Is there a way to add comments to the roles files in TeamSite? Our usernames are less than friendly and I would like to do something like:

domain\xxxx # full name - Reason for existing
domain\yyyy # full name - Reason for existing

To better manage our roles files

Dan Bowker

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Migrateduser

There is a feature that others have requested before (FR 24365). Currently the roles files can not be commented.

As a side note. Unix passwd and group files can not be commented as well (solaris).

tvaughan

Hi,

You can add comments and it won't hurt you too much in light usage. I think it slows down CLTs like iwuser and iwckrole, but I had comments in my *.uid files for a year before I found out they weren't supported.

They will screw you up if you are going to configure your IW server to use LDAP or NIS or anything like that, because IW will send every line in the *.uid files out to LDAP and NIS trying to get uids for your users. If those 'users' are actually comment lines, you can get some timeouts from LDAP (I'm using NDS, Sol 2.8, IW 5.0.1)

Tom