x or ! in shadow field of /etc/passwd
Anyone understand what x and ! mean in the shadow field of /etc/passwd and /etc/group? A bit of googling suggests that: x => a valid encrypted passwd in a shadow file * => no encrypted password => fail all logins ! is a synonym for x But that doesn't explain why there is a such a random sprinkling of x and ! in SuSE's passwd nor what they are doing in /etc/group? Long Puzzled, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.
On Mon, Oct 24, Michael James wrote:
Anyone understand what x and ! mean in the shadow field of /etc/passwd and /etc/group?
A bit of googling suggests that: x => a valid encrypted passwd in a shadow file * => no encrypted password => fail all logins ! is a synonym for x
! means the account is locked. See "passwd -l". -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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