23 May
2005
23 May
'05
12:30 p.m.
I was looking in my /etc/shadow file to see which users had passwords (so I could change them to something more secure, I know some are rubbish at the moment) and now I'm not sure what the password field is signifying.
Most of the non-login 'system' accounts like 'bin' have a password field of '*', but there are a couple ('postgres' and another) which have a password field of '!'. Do both '!' and '*' indicate no password?
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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."