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From: cpsrk@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Stuart R Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: 'finger' bug ??
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.023641.2768@marlin.jcu.edu.au>
Date: 17 Dec 90 02:36:41 GMT
Organization: James Cook University
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This does not appear to have made it out the first time - apologies
if it did.

Found a bug in 'finger' on a DECstation 5000, running Ultrix 4.0.

Doing a 'finger 1' displays the names of users and accounts containing
the character '1', but also displays information for any entries in
/etc/passwd that have 2 consecutive spaces in the info field (field 5),
or if there is a trailing space before the colon terminating field 5.

Am I missing something here? Anyone from DEC care to comment?

-Stuart Kemp
cpsrk@groper.jcu.edu.au