Hi, all.
Migrating our NIS setup from a Solaris machine to a Red Hat 6.2 box, and snag
number one is that the Solaris rig didn't include a gshadow file, just a
classical "group" file. Can someone recommend a quick trick for turning a
group file into its shadow-compatible counterpart? As I read the man page
for grpconv, it appears to be hard-wired into using /etc/group as input and
/etc/gshadow as output, which ain't what I need.
So I tried to do it by hand, but I'm confused. Using a standing Linux box
as an example, there appear to be three flavors of lines in gshadow. Examples
of one each:
root:::root
floppy:x::
mjinks:!::
The "root" one I think I understand: no password for that group, you're
either in or you're not. But what's the difference between the x and the !
in the other two lines? Reading group(5), shadow(5) and passwd(5), I don't
find any explanation of what those mean.
I know that an asterisk in the password field of a passwd file is supposed to
lock the account (right?) but I don't know about those other symbols.
thanks,
-m
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