[wplug] /etc/master.passwd Was: Re: SpamAssassin -- user_prefs security hole?

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Wed May 26 21:49:47 EDT 2004


Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> One thing that I can't find doco for in the man pages is in /etc/shadow 
> the password field can also be either '!!' (for login disabled) or '*' 
> (for ?????????)

On BSD systems, '*' means "login disabled".  Perhaps Linux allows it to
maintain compatibility?

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com



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