--- utempter-0.5.3/utempter.c.orig	Tue Apr 20 10:40:17 2004
+++ utempter-0.5.3/utempter.c	Tue Apr 20 10:56:29 2004
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
     if (strstr(device, "/../") || strstr(device, "/./") || 
 	strstr(device, "//")) {
 	fprintf(stderr, "a simple path is required\n");
+	exit(1);
     }
 
     if (strncmp(device, "/dev/", 5)) {