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Re: Q
Erez Doron <erez@savan.com> writes:
>
> Well everybody think this is a trevial question ???
>
> well in /etc/passwd, if you leave one empty line,
> all users in the next lines are ignored !!!
>
You are *NOT SUPPOSED* to have empty lines in your /etc/passwd. And as
far as I know, you are not supposed to have whitespaces in your
username. If you want to have fun stress-testing UNIX, then it's a
completely different matter.
> so doing grep ^$USER_NAME_I_SEARCH: /etc/passwd will give
> a wrong answer
>
And if there is no /etc/passwd it'll even give an error!
--
Alexander L. Belikoff
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
abel@bfr.co.il
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- Re: Q
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- Re: Q
- From: Erez Doron <erez@savan.com>