Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 02:23:37 +0200 From: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com>, Paulo Fragoso <paulo@nlink.com.br> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent Message-ID: <19980711022337.56229@foobar.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710144732.2887D-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>; from Tom on Fri, Jul 10, 1998 at 02:49:12PM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710170655.1013A-100000@mirage.nlink.com.br> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980710144732.2887D-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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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
<Shabby> Sleep is an abstinence syndrome wich occurs due to lack of caffein.
Wed Mar 4 04:53:33 CET 1998 #unix, ircnet
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