[CentOS] shadow file question
Feizhou
feizhou at graffiti.net
Fri Jun 9 15:54:51 UTC 2006
Steve wrote:
> Feizhou wrote:
>
>> There is this * in the password field of the shadow file for certain
>> accounts.
>>
>> I know that the ! is to indicate a locked account but what does a * mean?
>>
> My understanding is that anything in that field that is not a valid
> encrypted password means the account is disabled. I believe that '!!'
> and '*' are simply 2 different conventions indicating the same thing.
Yeah, apparently * is used on BSD systems instead of !.
So the pam code? probably just accepts either now.
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