From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GPGOG-00003L-1E for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:30:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8IAS7BR032576; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:28:07 GMT Received: from issv0177.isis.de (issv0177.isis.de [195.158.131.227]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8IAHfuH004746 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:17:41 GMT Received: from mail.autoonline.de (mail.autoonline.de [195.158.141.68]) by issv0177.isis.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C3D609B0 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:17:38 +0200 (CEST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Subject: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:04:55 +0200 Message-ID: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4ACD@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? thread-index: AcbbBNcK9jsACxBNRxmtuyJyqUNzmwABIMgg From: "Noack, Sebastian" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k8IAHfuH004746 X-Archives-Salt: 56e2f024-2bbc-4fdd-9431-bb885a50dfc3 X-Archives-Hash: d8f0c1e8d22bb04cf220e8933fb73535 The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be an invalid hash like "x" or "*" for example. Regards Sebastian Noack > OK, thank you. The * should appear in /etc/shadow, not in /etc/passwd. > -- > Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list