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Subject: passwd and other tools blert on comments in master.passwd
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>Number:         13223
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       passwd and other tools blert on comments in master.passwd
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 18 05:00:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:    Thu Aug 19 04:37:04 PDT 1999
>Last-Modified:  Thu Aug 19 04:38:17 PDT 1999
>Originator:     Khetan H. Gajjar
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
OS Users Group
>Environment:

FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT PC, but seen on 2.2.x and 3.x releases
as well.

>Description:

It is possible to add comments in the master.passwd file (using
vipw), and have authentication work perfectly. passwd however
doesn't like this. Removing the comments allows passwd to work
perfectly again.

>How-To-Repeat:

vipw
Add a few comments between the password entries
i.e
#these are user accounts
..user account details..
#these are system accounts
..system account deatils..
etc

Change passwords

>Fix:
	
Unknown - either don't allow comments, or fix passwd to ignore them

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: sheldonh 
State-Changed-When: Thu Aug 19 04:37:04 PDT 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
Problem fixed in STABLE on 1999/07/29. 
>Unformatted:
