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1. Four ways to get or insert in a Rust map

   Using the entry API to insert things in more complicated situations.

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2. Generating secure passwords

   How to generate passwords in accordance with rules

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3. A Tool to Handle /etc/passwd.pacnew and Friends

   The last several times I’ve updated filesystem, .pacnew files were created for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow. My default approach for merging .pacnew files is to use vimdiff to edit the original and new files simultaneously. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work very well for /etc/passwd and friends because they are databases, not configuration files.

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