Design 41 WP9: readlink and the account and group lookup are node-files verbs too (ADR 0394 §1; review)

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 - **A node seat, `node-files`, on every node**, held by a module of its own, `mesh-files`, beside `mesh-reads`
  in the catalogue; the controller holds the seat's definition beside the other node seats. It has a verb for each file action: list,
-  stat, read, search, write, copy, move, delete, make a folder, change mode, change owner, and the trash's list and
-  restore. Each says what it replaces (ADR 0245): `ls`, `stat`, `cat`, `grep`, `cp`, `mv`, `rm`, `mkdir`, `chmod`,
-  `chown`, and `ssh <node> cp` for a copy between nodes.
+  stat, readlink, read, search, write, copy, move, delete, make a folder, change mode, change owner, account and group
+  lookup, and the trash's list and restore. Each says what it replaces (ADR 0245): `ls`, `stat`, `readlink`, `cat`,
+  `grep`, `cp`, `mv`, `rm`, `mkdir`, `chmod`, `chown`, `getent passwd`, `getent group`, `id`, and `ssh <node> cp` for a
+  copy between nodes.
 - **It may touch every file.** It declares no account of its own: the tool runner starts it as the node's
  operator account, which has sudo without a password, and it uses `sudo -n` only where that account's own rights
  do not reach. It keeps each file's owner and modes as well as it can: a copy or a move keeps them, a new file