Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 17:29:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@proper.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What does an * in master.passwd (not passwd) mean? Message-ID: <20050916222912.GA97440@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <p06230928bf50f5540441@[10.20.30.249]> References: <p06230928bf50f5540441@[10.20.30.249]>
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In the last episode (Sep 16), Paul Hoffman said: > In 5.4 (and probably lots of other versions), the master.passwd file > is pre-seeded with lots of accounts such as daemon, operator, and so > on. The master.passwd file looks like: > > daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system processes:/root:/usr/sbin/nologin > operator:*:2:5::0:0:System &:/:/usr/sbin/nologin > . . . > > The man page for master.passwd and passwd say what an "*" in the > second field means in passwd, but not in master.passwd. Any clues > would be appreciated (and I will put in a documentation pr when I > have an answer). It's an invalid password hash, so the user can't log in. Anything that doesn't match DES or md5 password hash output would do. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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