/etc/passwd grungies
Justin C. Walker [Curmudgeon at Large]
justin at cxmd.UUCP
Fri Feb 7 07:01:07 AEST 1986
>From Chris:
> BEWARE: In /etc/passwd blank or otherwise badly formatted lines can
> cause *extremely* anomalous behaviour. Eg: System V accounting can run
Now that the horse is gone, there is a program called /etc/pwck
which you can use to check the integrity of the passwd file.
It comes with System V. There is also /etc/grpck, for /etc/group.
Although it's a pain, you might want to use these every time you
make a change to one of these files.
There really should be a user program which does this, and locks
the file while it's doing it. Oh well...
Cheers
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