barto@celerity.UUCP (David Barto) (01/24/85)
Index: /usr/src/etc/vipw.c 4.2BSD
Subject: vipw fails to work if the shell is anything other than empty
Description:
If you have a root passwd entry with a shell of /bin/csh
vipw will always think that you have mangled the passwd file.
Try changing the shell from
root:lkjdfljsd:0:1:Root user:\0
to
root:lkjdfljsd:0:1:Root user:/bin/sh
or
root:lkjdfljsd:0:1:Root user:/bin/csh
vipw will complain---
Fix:
change the strncmp, to use the length of the complare!
diff follows
RCS file: RCS/vipw.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -c -r1.1 vipw.c
*** /tmp/,RCSt1011893 Thu Jan 24 10:04:57 1985
--- vipw.c Thu Jan 24 10:04:25 1985
***************
*** 125,131
if (cp == 0)
break;
/* login directory */
! if (strncmp(++cp, "/:"))
break;
cp += 2;
if (*cp && strcmp(cp, "/bin/sh") &&
--- 125,131 -----
if (cp == 0)
break;
/* login directory */
! if (strncmp(++cp, "/:", 2))
break;
cp += 2;
if (*cp && strcmp(cp, "/bin/sh") &&
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