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

[Joe Lewis <joe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> 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.

Well, I suppose we are both right.  Solaris uses the 'x' for a shadowed 
password and '*' for the lock, while the BSD flavors use '*' for the 
shadow and 'x' for the locking mechanism.


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