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.
Well, I suppose we are both right. Solaris uses the 'x' for a shadowed password and '*' for the lock, while the BSD flavors use '*' for the shadow and 'x' for the locking mechanism.
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