On Thu, Jan 15, René Matthäi wrote:
Hi,
Thorsten Kukuk schrieb:
On Thu, Jan 15, Verdi March wrote:
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.
In case of a !, you could unlock that account with usermod -U.
Not always. Not all implementations allow to unlock an account, which would have an empty password afterwards. 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