Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!samsung!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!alchemy!ruunfs!muts From: muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Is this a joke?? (was:Re: perl COPS, version 1.02 or 1.03 beta) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 20:10:35 GMT References: <27546@as0c.sei.cmu.edu> Sender: usenet@fys.ruu.nl (News Control) Organization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht Lines: 20 After running this version of cops I saw the following warning which made me quite nervous: Warning! Passwd file, line 2, user stroot has uid == 0 and is not root stroot:QXCAyBt4zMwoE:0:1:The root of all evil:/:/bin/csh Warning! Passwd file, line 21, no password: df::3271:78:Dan Farmer:/usr/users/df:/usr/local/bin/tcsh User df and stroot do not exist in my /etc/passwd, but I tought something very tricky was going on. Especially since we do have /usr/local/bin/tcsh installed, and "The root of all evil" occurs in /etc/passwd too. Until I saw the author of cops is Dan Farmer. Is this an intended joke or what? -- Peter Mutsaers email: muts@fys.ruu.nl Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht muts@fysak.fys.ruu.nl Princetonplein 5 tel: (+31)-(0)30-533880 3584 CG Utrecht, Netherlands