On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:04:16PM -0700, Hattie Rouge wrote: > 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? Not from documentation -- just convention. And source code. I don't think you'll find any standard that governs the use of shadow files. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer > > -----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
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