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Re: [SLE] x or ! in shadow field of /etc/passwd
- From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:24:09 +0200
- Message-id: <20051024062409.GA15887@xxxxxxx>
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".
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Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg
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> 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@xxxxxxx
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5 D-90409 Nuernberg
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Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B
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