I'm still looking for it...where did you find the docs on the group password field and how it interacts with the group shadow file? Hattie Rouge > -----Original Message----- > From: pam-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:pam-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Langasek > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 11:55 AM > To: pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [FIXED] Re: [BUG?] RE: chmod 444 /etc/shadow > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list
