Hi, I'm not sure why you would have that there.

It looks to be an incomplete entry for a user called "+" and is missing, apart from obvious things such as the uid and gid, but also the final seperator.

What OS are you using?

I would say initially take a look at the timestamp on the file and see when it changed and perhaps see who was on at that time with last.

I guess also check if anything else was changed at the same time as that passwd file, maybe something you installed or someone else.


I would also say for cleanliness purposes, take a backup of the file and remove that entry. If you notice anything breaking then investigate further as the best learning always comes from breaking things

Thanks