15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
07:04
On Thu, Jan 15, Verdi March wrote:
Hi, in passwd, what is the meaning of ! (in the password field)? And why, by default, some daemon account (ftp) is disabled (*-ed), but others (sshd, postgres) is !-ed?
There is no difference. ! has the same meaning as *. Depends on, which tools at which time created the account. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE Linux AG Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B