I suppose that the person who originally asked about this uses the old
shadow format in /etc/passwd file where 'x' is originally '*' and would
like to convert it to the new format. Look at the shadowutils
documentation, filename: CHANGES.
On Sun, 8 Mar 1998, Steve "Stevers!" Coile wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Bench wrote:
> >This is possible but you can't just issue a pwconv5 here since all
> >shadowed password '*' on /etc/passwd file which is the case in Slackware
> >instead of 'x' will be interpreted in Redhat's shadow suite a non-shadowed
> >password itself. You can create a script that convert all '*' to 'x'
> >then issue a pwconv5.
>
> Uhhhh...huh? You're not making sense.
>
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