Gaddis, Jeremy L. wrote:
On 10/8/07, tech user <techwww@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what's the difference between these two passwd fields in /etc/shadow?
nobody:*:13785:0:99999:7:::
dbus:!!:13785:0:99999:7:::
that's to say,what does '*' mean and what does '!!' mean in /etc/shadow?
The asterisk means that no logons are permitted from that account.
Any attempt to login with the nobody account would fail.
Actually, anything that is NOT a valid crypted string (DES/md5/whatever)
and is NOT blank will cause the account to be 'locked'. Various
operating systems have different conventions for example, Solaris likes
to use *LK* as the string, but there is no firm convention.
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Steve.
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