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 1GPIhe-0005Eo-9v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:58:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8ICvj7u020126; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:57:45 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 k8ICqRo6028403 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:52:27 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 k8ICqQ0j022634 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:52:26 +0100 Received: (qmail 3808 invoked from network); 18 Sep 2006 13:52:25 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 2006 13:52:25 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 13:52:25 +0100 (WEST) From: Jorge Almeida To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? In-Reply-To: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4ACD@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> Message-ID: References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4ACD@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> 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: 8e765d04-d730-4392-8dae-5f0548fe1c39 X-Archives-Hash: 00556aae404d5bdb9676f3e8d787fdfd 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? -- Jorge Almeida -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list