On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0600, Joe Lewis wrote: > An '*' password is a "shadowed" password. What an odd twist - to get > permissions for the group "shadow" one has to view the "shadow" file. An 'x' is a shadowed password; a '*' means the user (or group) has no valid password. It might be considered a bug to have a 'x' in /etc/group without a corresponding entry in /etc/gshadow, but in practice, I've always seen this handled much more gracefully. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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