how to comment multiple lines in linux while creating a user account

dora22 · 12-15-2017, 06:29 PM

create a user account called jessy ringer of the football team and assign his home directory at football/jringer

keefaz · 12-15-2017, 06:33 PM

You mean football commentary?

frankbell · 12-16-2017, 08:02 PM

Please read this: https://www.linuxquestions.org/linux...Ask_a_Question

!!! · 12-16-2017, 10:43 PM

Inserting a # as the very first character in /etc/passwd (for those unfortunates who have such file)
seemed to work ok for me. I'd suggest Moderator close this Thread and ban (another) spammer.

MadeInGermany · 12-17-2017, 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by !!!

Inserting a # as the very first character in /etc/passwd (for those unfortunates who have such file)
seemed to work ok for me. I'd suggest Moderator close this Thread and ban (another) spammer.

This is a classic mistake in Unix:
a #user in /etc/passwd is not a comment but a valid user named #user

!!! · 12-17-2017, 03:16 AM

I thot so too, but when I just tried it (in a couple distros), at least ls -l reported a zero instead of #root
Which #root I expected. I was thinking: maybe something got changed aka 'fixed' over the decades.
Or maybe login still accepts #username but ls -l reports just numeric uid. I need to visit more VBoxes

Anyway, M. Spammer accidentally gave us something [slightly] interesting

(I welcome anyone's output in CODE tags

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