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| From: | Jorge Almeida <jalmeida@××××××××××××.pt> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:58:27 | ||
| Message-Id: | Pine.LNX.4.64.0609181349430.30416@jmaa.math.ist.utl.pt | ||
| In Reply to: | AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? by "Noack | ||
| 1 | On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Noack, Sebastian wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > The second field in /etc/passwd stands also for the password hash. But |
| 4 | > since storing passwords in /etc/passwd is deprecated, it should ever be |
| 5 | > an invalid hash like "x" or "*" for example. |
| 6 | > |
| 7 | Yes, but that holds for normal accounts as well as for "service" |
| 8 | accounts. What I was saying is that a * in /etc/shadow will make logging |
| 9 | in impossible. Did I understand wrong? |
| 10 | -- |
| 11 | Jorge Almeida |
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| Subject | Author |
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| Re: AW: [gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ? | Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> |