Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:45:37 -0300 (EST) From: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710170655.1013A-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710122412.2887A-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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Hi,
On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Tom wrote:
>
> 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
>
But I'm using vipw to edit this files. I would like to leave coments in
/etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd.
In /etc/master.passwd edited with vipw:
user1:(password):...
user2:(password):...
#user3:(password):... > this users stopped logins temporarily
user4:(password):...
when anyone executes:
% finger user1 it work fine.
and to user2 too, but when:
% finger user4 it return no such user
My problem are some scripts to verify users on system. I'm verifying using
one loop like this: (perl)
while (($account, $passwd, $uid, $gid, $quota, $comment, $gcos, $home,
$shell) = getpwent())
{
}
this finsh when getpwent() return 0 this occur in frist comment in
/etc/master.passwd not in end of file. If getpwent() returned 0 in
comments "#" and -1 in EOF it solved. Are there any solution in this case?
Many thanks,
Paulo.
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