From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 12:28:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (__ivaliduser): Allow '#' as comment character.
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(__ivaliduser): Allow '#' as comment character.
---

diff --git a/inet/rcmd.c b/inet/rcmd.c
index a5f79f41aeb..f15282c6e1d 100644
--- a/inet/rcmd.c
+++ b/inet/rcmd.c
@@ -426,11 +426,18 @@ __ivaliduser(hostf, raddr, luser, ruser)
 	register char *user, *p;
 	int ch;
 	char *buf = NULL;
+	char *cp;
 	size_t bufsize = 0;
 	ssize_t nread;
 
 	while ((nread = __getline (&buf, &bufsize, hostf)) > 0) {
 		buf[bufsize - 1] = '\0'; /* Make sure it's terminated.  */
+		/* Because the file format does not know any form of quoting we
+		   can search forward for the next '#' character and if found
+		   make it terminating the line.  */
+		cp = strchr (buf, '#');
+		if (cp != NULL)
+		  *cp = '\0';
 		p = buf;
 		while (*p != '\n' && *p != ' ' && *p != '\t' && *p != '\0') {
 			*p = isupper(*p) ? tolower(*p) : *p;