Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-07 Thread Hans-Gunther Borrmann
On Monday 06 June 2005 18:54, Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: > Zac Medico wrote: > >Did you see man 5 shadow? > > yes > man 5 shadow (this all there is about the password field): > The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to > 24 characters from the 64 character alphabe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Richard Fish
Hans Hvelplund Odborg wrote: >Me too. I just started wondering what the difference was > > "Use the source Luke!" >From src/login.c in shadow-4.0.7: /* * If the encrypted password begins with a "!", the account * is locked and the user cannot

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: /etc/shadow syntax

2005-06-06 Thread Hans Hvelplund Odborg
Zac Medico wrote: >Did you see man 5 shadow? yes man 5 shadow (this all there is about the password field): The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet a thru z, A thru Z, 0 thru 9, interpreted. > I've used freenx > suc