[gentoo-user] x or * in /etc/passwd ?

[Jorge Almeida]

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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Jorge Almeida
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