Null entries in passwd

[jaap at haring.UUCP]

> Recently we've found "null" entries in our passwd file.
> They looked like this:
>        :
>        :0::
>        :0:0::
>        :
>        :0:

I've seen the same lines and thought is was a problem. (H'm, looks
like someone is trying to ``update'' the /etc/passwd file via an
illegal way, else he would have done it properly).

Actually I was doing this day `cat` to a random file - a random file is
always /etc/passwd to me - while trying to find out why this HP2621 didn't
work properly with `vi`.

The /etc/passwd turned out to be OK, the terminal needed to be repaired.

	Jaap Akkerhuis

Still flabbergasted about the H&P ``firmware''.