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 1GPFED-0002q9-LP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:15:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8I9EhBQ021783; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:14:43 GMT Received: from cubo.math.ist.utl.pt (cubo.math.ist.utl.pt [193.136.196.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8I9947Q013212 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 09:09:05 GMT Received: from jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt (jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt [193.136.196.112]) by cubo.math.ist.utl.pt (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8I994lK031761 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:09:04 +0100 Received: (qmail 23395 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2006 10:09:03 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 2006 10:09:03 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:09:03 +0100 (WEST) From: Jorge Almeida To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? Message-ID: 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; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 666c400f-5c34-431c-83cf-2d7f2cdd66ed X-Archives-Hash: 76aa8ba8dbac5da1d6906a5e63a20878 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? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list