Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:27:09 -0700 From: "Chris St Denis" <chris@aebc.com> To: "'Paul Hoffman'" <phoffman@proper.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: What does an * in master.passwd (not passwd) mean? Message-ID: <200509161529453.SM01508@chris> In-Reply-To: <p06230928bf50f5540441@[10.20.30.249]>
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It means an account that can not be logged in to. The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out the account from login. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 3:22 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What does an * in master.passwd (not passwd) mean? 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). --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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