From: Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@math.ist.utl.pt>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:52:25 +0100 (WEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609181349430.30416@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4ACD@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local>
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Noack, Sebastian wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, but that holds for normal accounts as well as for "service"
accounts. What I was saying is that a * in /etc/shadow will make logging
in impossible. Did I understand wrong?
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2006-09-18 10:04 AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? Noack, Sebastian
2006-09-18 12:52 ` Jorge Almeida [this message]
2006-09-18 13:32 ` Alan McKinnon
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