Implications of recent virus (Trojan Horse) attack

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <439 at auspex.UUCP> guy at auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) writes:
>If that fix is "have 'getpwent()' return NULL if the entry it looks at
>is syntactically incorrect," the fix is simple but rather rude;

That would be rude but it wasn't what I was talking about.
All you really need to do is to skip over a bogus entry and
resynchronize for the next one.