On May 26, 2005, at 12:38 PM, James Keeline wrote:

I've not seen the !! before but would expect it to have similar results to
*.


IIRC, the !! is usually prepended to the password hash by the 'passwd -l' command in order to "lock" the password. This was far more useful before the days of shadow account expiration settings.

Gregory

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