'finger' bug ??

[Stuart R Kemp]

This does not appear to have made it out the first time - apologies
if it did.

Found a bug in 'finger' on a DECstation 5000, running Ultrix 4.0.

Doing a 'finger 1' displays the names of users and accounts containing
the character '1', but also displays information for any entries in
/etc/passwd that have 2 consecutive spaces in the info field (field 5),
or if there is a trailing space before the colon terminating field 5.

Am I missing something here? Anyone from DEC care to comment?

-Stuart Kemp
cpsrk at groper.jcu.edu.au