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From: jaap@haring.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Null entries in passwd
Message-ID: <257@haring.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-May-84 09:35:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 28 09:35:28 1984
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> Recently we've found "null" entries in our passwd file.
> They looked like this:
>        :
>        :0::
>        :0:0::
>        :
>        :0:

I've seen the same lines and thought is was a problem. (H'm, looks
like someone is trying to ``update'' the /etc/passwd file via an
illegal way, else he would have done it properly).

Actually I was doing this day `cat` to a random file - a random file is
always /etc/passwd to me - while trying to find out why this HP2621 didn't
work properly with `vi`.

The /etc/passwd turned out to be OK, the terminal needed to be repaired.

	Jaap Akkerhuis

Still flabbergasted about the H&P ``firmware''.