On 2025-03-04 10:46:50 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > This is the opposite. The upgrade fails for system accounts that are
> > not locked (those without an exclamation point).
>
> Just to get the terminology straight: How would you call an account that
> has * as a password in /etc/shadow?
I'd say an account without a password. But such an account is
certainly not locked according to the shadow(5) man page:
A password field which starts with an exclamation mark means that
the password is locked.
Note that adduser 3.143 also uses this notion of "locked":
$ret |= EXISTING_LOCKED if (substr($pw,0,1) eq "!"); # TODO: also
check expiry?
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