Re: [FIXED] Re: [BUG?] RE: chmod 444 /etc/shadow

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0600, Joe Lewis wrote:
> An '*' password is a "shadowed" password.  What an odd twist - to get 
> permissions for the group "shadow" one has to view the "shadow" file.

An 'x' is a shadowed password; a '*' means the user (or group) has no
valid password.  It might be considered a bug to have a 'x' in
/etc/group without a corresponding entry in /etc/gshadow, but in
practice, I've always seen this handled much more gracefully.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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