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From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
Subject: Re: Diskless question
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:40:32 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5177E073.5040308@qeng-ho.org> (Arthur Chance's message of "Wed, 
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Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> writes:

> On 04/24/13 14:07, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>
> No, that's from /etc/passwd which never shows any real password
> information. The true password field is in /etc/master.passwd and I'm
> not going to ask anyone to show that here. However, the OP should
> check it's got a valid looking field value rather than just a '*'

Oops. Right.