Subject: Bug#3720: shutdown prints "You don't exist. Go away!"

From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 96 14:44 PDT

Package: shutdown

Shutdown prints "You don't exist. Go away!" if the password file becomes
corrupt and the user attempts to shut down with control-alt-del.
While I'm not arguing with the feature, the message should be improved.
Something like
"shutdown: permission denied: no record for user %d in /etc/passwd."
would be more appropriate. We are not attempting to provide security
through obscurity, which I think may have been the goal of this message.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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