I agree in principle, although it's not really related to configuring VirtualHosts so it would probably deserve to be discussed in a node of its own.

...By someone considerably more skilled than myself :-/

I worked around the problem by scanning the passwd/group files manually. Not at all portable ofcourse, but that's no particular concern of mine.

my %users = ();
my %groups = ();

my $pfname = '/etc/passwd';
open(my $pfh, $pfname) || warn "Error reading $pfname: $!";
while (my $line = <$pfh>) {
  my ($name) = split(/:/, $line);
  $users{$name} = 1;
}
close $pfh;

my $gfname = '/etc/group';
open(my $gfh, $gfname) || warn "Error reading $gfname: $!";
while (my $line = <$gfh>) {
  my ($name) = split(/:/, $line);
  $groups{$name} = 1;
}
close $gfh;

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