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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:45:37 -0300 (EST)
From: Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br>
To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
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Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent
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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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