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Article #1062Re: zero length /etc/passwd (was Re: ulimit)
From: John Plocher
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 03:22
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1989 03:22
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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
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!oliveb!sun!sally!plocher 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> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: plocher@sun.UUCP (John Plocher) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 16