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Subject: Re: passwd hashes in master.passwd: disabled?
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Seamus Abshere <sabshere@Princeton.EDU> writes:

> > The accounts marked with '*' are disabled :-)
> 
> but "root" has a * and I can still log in...

As root?  I don't think so, unless you edited the file by hand and
forgot to rebuild the database.  (pwd_mkdb(8))

> I thought it had something to do with "shadow" passwords or something.

master.passwd *is* the shadow password file.  
Ordinary users don't have permissions to read it.