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From: johanw@ttdsv.UUCP (Johan Wide'n)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Null entries in passwd
Message-ID: <37@ttdsv.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-May-84 17:38:35 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 30 17:38:35 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 02:24:48 EDT
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Organization: The Royal Inst. of Techn., Stockholm
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passwd (the program that sets password) handles lines with
	number of fields != 7
ungracefully. Instead of finding out why I have resorted to
regularly running a verification script on /etc/passwd.

	(echo passwd ; awk 'BEGIN{FS=":"}{if(NF != 7) print $0 }' \