Niels wrote:
>Keresztfalvi Gabor Agoston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> It works for me on my Linux box, but I realized, that for example on AIX this
>> wouldn't work, because in /etc/passwd there is '!' (and not 'x') instead of
>> the password... This needs some workaround. Possibly other systems use other
>> chars instead of the password...
>Is there any standard or canonical documentation on how shadow
>passwords should work?
any password field that is not exactly 13 characters long is a shadow password.
raf