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From: steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Comments in /etc/passwd
Summary: caution when doing this sort of thing
Keywords: passwd comments
Message-ID: <934@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>
Date: 6 Jan 89 04:21:22 GMT
References: <18759@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Reply-To: steved@longs.lance.colostate.edu (Steve Dempsey)
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523
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In article <18759@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> barn@paxton.ced.berkeley.edu (Gary Barnette) writes:
>
>	Can somone tell me if it is OK to have comments ( #... )
>	in /etc/passwd. Passwd(5) doesn't tell me. Running
>	BSD 4.2 version 3.2 on Suns.

I can't think of any stock 4.[23]/SunOS code that is likely to break.
For my own utilities that might not be robust enough (:-) and anything else
that may be lurking, I'd make the comment in the form of a legitimate passwd
entry - something like this:

      #:*:-99:-99:*** comments go here ***:/:/nologinshell

>Gary Barnette
>barn@CED.berkeley.edu

        Steve Dempsey,  Center for Computer Assisted Engineering
  Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523    +1 303 491 0630
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