-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Friday 2008-01-25 at 22:44 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
a guess from scanning the man pages (which *are* available), groupadd defaults to disabling the account. I said "a guess".
And, from where did you glean your guess old wise one??
:-) Perhaps:
-p, --password password Encrypted password as returned by crypt(3) for the new account. The default is to disable the account.
? passwd(5) has some more info, but dispersed: These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite, where /etc/passwd has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords, and the encrypted passwords are in /etc/shadow which is readable by the superuser only. So, * is for encripted passwords in /etc/shadow The field descriptions are: ... password the encrypted user password, an asterisk (*), or the letter 'x'. (See pwconv(8) for an explanation of 'x'.) So, there is more in pwconv(8). [...] No, I don't find any reference to !,* etc. Only 'x': This value indicates that the password for the user is already in /etc/shadow and should not be modified. So, I "guess" that ... No, I can't guess what is the difference betweeen '*' and 'x', and no idea about '!'. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHmwpdtTMYHG2NR9URAkPQAJ941/bxBK2BVa9ndsl4wUrGnlQ7BQCdHT/M Ny8O2qtKnshNQTI3uIoOeIw= =Mj95 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org