From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 10 17:25:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24472 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:25:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from foobar.franken.de (ojnAMRVndnlP2eIatH4ssZ7FrXsBsbmc@foobar.franken.de [194.94.249.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24356 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from logix@foobar.franken.de) Received: (from logix@localhost) by foobar.franken.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id CAA23758; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 02:23:37 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980711022337.56229@foobar.franken.de> Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 02:23:37 +0200 From: Harold Gutch To: Tom , Paulo Fragoso Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: ; from Tom on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 02:49:12PM -0700 X-Organisation: BatmanSystemDistribution X-Mission: To free the world from the Penguin Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 02:49:12PM -0700, Tom wrote: > I hope you realize that commented usersnames have not been historically > allowed in UNIX. > The FreeBSD manpage to passwd(5) explicitely mentions this case: Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#) are com- ments, and are ignored. NetBSD 1.3, RedHat Linux 5.1, IRIX 5.2, SunOS 5.5 do not mention "commented usernames" etc. in their manpages. I am not sure how/when the sentence mentioned above made its way into the manpage, but as it seemed to have worked before (see Paolo's original Mail), I guess the manpage is correct and therefore getpwent() is broken somehow... -- bye, logix Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein. Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message