From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:09:03 +0100 (WEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609181003350.30416@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt> (raw)
I've seen somewhere a '*' in the password field of non-human users. I
think this is supposed to mean that user can't login. However, I didn't
find anything like that in gentoo's /etc/passwd (e.g., for user cron or
user sshd). Can someone comment on this matter? Is * deprecated? Of
course, these non-human users have /bin/false as shell, but extra
precautions wouldn't hurt...
Am I seeing something wrong?
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2006-09-18 9:09 Jorge Almeida [this message]
2006-09-18 9:19 ` [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? Matteo Pillon
2006-09-18 9:26 ` Jorge Almeida
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