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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Harold Gutch wrote:

> Paolo's original Mail), I guess the manpage is correct and
> therefore getpwent() is broken somehow...

  No, getpwent is not broken.  pwd_mkdb should not even put commeted out
usernames into the database for getpwent to see.

> -- 
> 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

Tom


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