Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
by Gene Spafford, Alan Schwartz, Simson Garfinkel

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
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This page was updated July 3, 2008.

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	[page-number]: serious technical mistake
	{page-number}: minor technical mistake
	<page-number>: important language/formatting problem
	(page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
	?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification



Confirmed errors:


{244}  Figure 10-3;
Numbering of the pins at the female and male connector does not match (1 and 5 are swapped 
at the male connector).
AUTHOR: The numbers 1,2,3,4,5 should be reversed on the male connector, as should the numbers 6,7,8,9.



(704)  4th paragraph;
The text refers to a line of code that has a different value.

The line of code:
# cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: 'NF != 9|| $3 == 0 || $2 "" { print $1 " " $2 " " $3}'

The text on the fourth paragrph:
The awk command then prints out the first three fields (username, password, and UID)
of any line in the /etc/passwd file that does not have SEVEN fields, ...

The number seven in the text should macth the number 9 in the code. The correct value is 7 (seven)