Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!mcdchg!usenet From: strick@gt-stratus.UUCP (henry strickland) Newsgroups: comp.unix Subject: Re: Trouble with comments in /etc/passwd, need advice... Message-ID: <1122@mcdchg.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 12:38:49 EDT Article-I.D.: mcdchg.1122 Posted: Thu Jul 16 12:38:49 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 07:59:31 EDT References: <981@mcdchg.UUCP> Sender: usenet@mcdchg.UUCP Organization: the clouds project -- computer science -- georgia tech Lines: 28 Approved: usenet@mcdchg.UUCP In article <981@mcdchg.UUCP> ray3rd@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ray E Saddler III) writes: >I have been attempting to comment /etc/passwd with pound signs, like >'cap files and the like to help keep groups distinguished, and notated. >(Yes, I am aware of /etc/group, and I do use it) 8^} On my masscomps I use a passwd-entry-like format for comments in my passwd files, like this: ______:______:8:8: SUPERUSERS :/:/______________ root:IaFZenWhNkyyl:0:0:Superuser:/: croot:IaFZenWhNkyyl:0:0:Superuser:/:/bin/csh kroot:IaFZenWhNkyyl:0:0:Superuser:/:/bin/ksh daemon:xx:1:1:Daemons:/: bin:xx:2:1:Commands:/bin: ______:______:8:8: FREEBIES :/:/______________ sync::3:3:Sync disks command:/etc:/bin/sync who::3:3:Who command:/etc:/bin/who ______:______:8:8: REAL USERS :/:/______________ strick:8yfSuix/wijos:103:50:henry strickland:/u/strick:/bin/csh The underscores seem to be good visual delimiters, and placed in the right places, make sure no program can sucessfully log in a bogus "______" user. Be *SURE* and put a nonzero NUMBER and not bogosity for the uid field, because if someone does find a way to make the line work, you'd rather them be uid 8 rather than uid 0 (which is what atoi() will interpret a nonnumber to be). "passwd" has no problem with these on my masscomps.