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On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Paulo Fragoso wrote:

> /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?

  The problem is probably pwd_mkdb.  It should simply strip the commented
usernames as it is building the file.  I don't see any login in pwd_mkdb
to do this, but I didn't spend much time looking.

  I hope you realize that commented usersnames have not been historically
allowed in UNIX.

> Many thanks,
> Paulo.

Tom


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