Bug 17767
| Summary: | The comments in /etc/group break many programs | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | root <root> |
| Component: | kern | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 3.4-STABLE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
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Description
root
2000-04-03 09:50:00 UTC
State Changed From-To: open->closed These programs simply shouldn't do that. The format of the /etc/group file is implementation specific. Ours is well documented (group(5)) and proper, standard ways of reading its contents are provided (id(1), getgrent(3)). You should take this bad programming practice up with the authors of the software in which you've discovered it. -On [20000403 12:01], root@web2000.ru (root@web2000.ru) wrote: > > Many programs e.g. proftpd asume /etc/group not to have any > comments and complain about malformed group file on startup. > >>How-To-Repeat: >>Fix: > > Remove comments from /etc/group It can also be argued otherwise that programs are supposed to ignore default comment characters from configuration files, such as the hash (#). -- Jeroen Ruigrok vd Werven/Asmodai asmodai@[wxs.nl|bart.nl|freebsd.org] Documentation nutter/C-rated Coder BSD: Technical excellence at its best The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai> When Silence cries... Is it what I feel? Or is it what you really long to be..? |
