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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Paulo Fragoso wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't know if seding message to correct list. But after upgrade from
> FBSD 2.2.2 to FBSD 2.2.6-stable something moved. In my /etc/passwd file
> there are lots of coments "#" and getpwent() return 0 after read this
> line. I have some scripts in perl that stops when getpwent() return 0.
> In FBSD 2.2.2 when getpwent() returned 0 meant end of file /etc/passwd.

  I hope you realize that /etc/passwd isn't used for anything.  All users
should be listed in /etc/master.passwd.  You should used vipw to edit
/etc/master.passwd

Tom


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