Comments in /etc/passwd

Guy Harris guy at auspex.UUCP
Sat Jan 7 04:55:33 AEST 1989


>	Can somone tell me if it is OK to have comments ( #... )
>	in /etc/passwd. Passwd(5) doesn't tell me. Running
>	BSD 4.2 version 3.2 on Suns.

No version of UNIX that I know of treats lines in "/etc/passwd" that
begin with "#" specially.  I'd suggest you not put comments in
"/etc/passwd".



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