Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 11:33:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Harold Gutch <logix@foobar.franken.de> Cc: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>, The <FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Missing CVS $Id strings Message-ID: <199809141033.LAA09904@woof.lan.awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Sep 1998 01:53:29 %2B0200." <19980914015329.18217@foobar.franken.de>
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 12:14:51AM +0100, Brian Somers wrote:
> > Here's what I did:
> >
> [...]
> > > /etc/passwd No documented comment chars
>
> >From the passwd(5) manpage:
> Lines whose first non-whitespace character is a pound-sign (#) are com-
> ments, and are ignored. Blank lines which consist only of spaces, tabs
> or newlines are also ignored.
>
> Note that the last I remember is that this is incorrect in
> -STABLE (see some -stable archive for more on this topic, the
> subject was "Finger and getpwent").
This should be submitted as a bug. Try putting a line beginning with
``#'' in your passwd via ``vipw'' on current....
> --
> 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
--
Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>, <brian@FreeBSD.org>, <brian@OpenBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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