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Adam Carheden <carheden@holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
: Can you please explain what the characters in the password file mean?  

Uh.... no.  I have no idea.  Lemme look, though.  I'm pretty sure that
a bang (!) means the account is disabled.  Uh.  Lemme look:
% man passwd
No... That's the passwd command.  But there's a see also at the
bottom:
% man 5 passwd
Okay, so an asterisk ("I regret that I have but one asterisk for
my country!" - Nathan Hale) means check the /etc/shadow file.
% man 5 shadow
Uh.  That tells me nothing.

Well, Adam, I'm pretty sure I've seen somewhere that adding a bang
disables the account.  I'm pretty sure that the passwd command will
even put that in the passwd file for you.  Otherwise, I guess they
should all be asterisks?  <shrug>

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