SVR3 passwd changes mode of passwd file

Bernie Brown bernie at codas.att.com
Wed Sep 28 23:36:29 AEST 1988


In article <873 at vsi.UUCP>, sullivan at vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes:
> In article <131 at cetia.UUCP>, chris at cetia.UUCP (Chris Bertin) writes:
>> 
>> If the utmp code finds that the file you are doing 'who' on is not in 'utmp'
>> format, it ZEROES the file!!! Thank you AT&T.
> 
> This is not the case on our 3B2/400 running SVR3.1.

Thanks for pointing this out, Michael.  The problem did exist in SVR0 and
possibly SVR2 but is definitely gone in SVR3.
-- 
Bernie Brown
bernie at codas.att.com



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