24 Oct
2005
24 Oct
'05
06:24
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