Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:20:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man5 passwd.5 Message-ID: <20050919122020.GA1759@flame.pc> In-Reply-To: <20050918222401.GQ441@submonkey.net> References: <200509181540.j8IFe2LR042274@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050918200104.F89636@ury.york.ac.uk> <20050918203109.GA1419@flame.pc> <20050918222401.GQ441@submonkey.net>
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On 2005-09-18 23:24, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 11:31:09PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>On 2005-09-18 20:16, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote: >>> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> > Modified files: >>> > share/man/man5 passwd.5 >>> > Log: >>> > Explain the use of `*' in master.passwd and that it's slightly >>> > different from the use of `*' in /etc/passwd. >>> >>> +.Nm master.passwd >>> +file, a password of >>> +.Ql * >>> +is used to indicate that no one can ever log into that account. >>> +The field only contains encrypted passwords, and >>> +.Ql * >>> +can never be the result of encrypting a password. >>> >>> This is not strictly true - all it prevents is logins using passwords. >>> Passwordless logins using SSH public keys (for example) are unaffected. > > Since "pw lock" has been entering the string '*LOCKED*' for years now, > is there any reason why this has never been fed back to the OpenSSH > project for inclusion as LOCKED_PASSWD_STRING for FreeBSD? > > Then we can document that in passwd.5 too and usage can start to > converge. Hi Ceri, The `*' reference above in master.passwd is not really OpenSSH-related. I think I'm not 100% sure why you were reminded of OpenSSH. Do you mean that we should document OpenSSH's and pw's ``*LOCKED*'' convention in there too?
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