Comments in /etc/passwd

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Jan 6 14:44:11 AEST 1989


In article <18759 at agate.BERKELEY.EDU> barn at paxton.ced.berkeley.edu (Gary Barnette) writes:
>	Can somone tell me if it is OK to have comments ( #... )
>	in /etc/passwd. Passwd(5) doesn't tell me. Running
>	BSD 4.2 version 3.2 on Suns.

No!!!  The first time someone uses /bin/passwd to change his password,
you'll have a password-free superuser account created on your system.



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