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From: df@sei.cmu.edu (Dan Farmer)
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Subject: Re: Is this a joke?? (was:Re: perl COPS, version 1.02 or 1.03 beta)
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Date: 23 Jun 91 05:16:30 GMT
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In article <muts.677621435@fysaq>, muts@fysap.fys.ruu.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes:
> After running this version of cops I saw the following warning which made
> me quite nervous:
[...]
> Is this an intended joke or what?


  No, the joke is on me :-)  I accidently put in my test file in the
post; as an alternate method of using other password files other than
the system default, I let you put the following line (26, I think)
in cops.cf:

$GET_PASSWD	= '/bin/cat passwd';

  It should be commented out, or whatever you would like instead of
/bin/cat passwd; it is intended for checking alternate password files,
such as shadow pass, etc.  I included my own test password file, which,
of course, includes my name.  Hope this clears things up; sorry...

 -- dan