From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 7 11:46:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpe.casema.net (smtpe.casema.net [195.96.96.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BFF6537B718 for ; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from walter@binity.com) Received: (qmail 27507 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2001 19:46:13 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slash.b118.binity.net) (212.64.76.218) by smtpe.casema.net with SMTP; 7 Mar 2001 19:46:13 -0000 Received: from tsunami.b118.binity.net (tsunami.b118.binity.net [172.18.3.10]) by slash.b118.binity.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A9E10E; Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:45:06 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:47:11 +0100 From: Walter Hop X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Educational X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <35366272722.20010307204711@binity.com> To: Christoph Sold Cc: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" , "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: A * as encrypted password? In-Reply-To: <3AA68D43.98A3D9F@i-clue.de> References: <3AA683B3.BC99C209@i-clue.de> <56363525492.20010307200123@binity.com> <3AA68D43.98A3D9F@i-clue.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [in reply to so@server.i-clue.de, 07-03-2001] > The vipw tool encrypts the "*" to a valid passwd string, thus you may > login using the passwd "*". It doesn't do that on my system (4.2-RELEASE), maybe this is different for other releases. Anyway, editing /etc/master.passwd will work too. But don't forget to do a "pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd" afterwards, to update the pwd.db and spwd.db files. -- I DON'T CARE WHERE, JUST FAR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message