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From: plocher%sally@Sun.COM (John Plocher)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: zero length /etc/passwd (was Re: ulimit)
Message-ID: <101490@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 89 03:22:13 GMT
References: <19516@genrad.UUCP> <1319@nusdhub.UUCP> <10075@smoke.BRL.MIL> <881@cetia4.UUCP> <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <WJC.89Apr22100003@ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM>
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Reply-To: plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher)
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+---- In <WJC.89Apr22100003@ho5cad.ho5cad.ATT.COM> Bill Carpenter writes:
| +---- In <100455@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> John Plocher writes:
| | Kids, don't do this at home.
| |[shows bug that truncates /etc/passwd]
| | 	% su					<<< This will fail   oops  <<<
| | 	password: xxxxxxx
| | 	# cp /etc/passwd.old /etc/passwd
| +----
| No, kidding, "don't do this"!!  I was once the last user on a machine
+----

Wow!  You wouldn't believe how many people caught that one!  That's what
happens when I try to condense the interactions of two terminals into one
without really thinking ;-(  Now back to that full mailbox...

   -John Plocher