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The Friday 2008-01-25 at 22:44 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
a guess from scanning the man pages (which *are* available), groupadd
defaults to disabling the account. I said "a guess".
And, from where did you glean your guess old wise one??
:-)
Perhaps:
-p, --password password
Encrypted password as returned by crypt(3) for the new
account. The default is to disable the
account.
?
passwd(5) has some more info, but dispersed:
These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite,
where /etc/passwd has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords,
and the encrypted passwords are in /etc/shadow which is readable by
the superuser only.
So, * is for encripted passwords in /etc/shadow
The field descriptions are:
...
password the encrypted user password, an asterisk (*), or the
letter 'x'. (See pwconv(8) for an explanation of 'x'.)
So, there is more in pwconv(8). [...] No, I don't find any reference to
!,* etc. Only 'x':
This value indicates that the password for the user is already in
/etc/shadow and should not be modified.
So, I "guess" that ... No, I can't guess what is the difference betweeen
'*' and 'x', and no idea about '!'.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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