landon: /etc/passwd passwd field

Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 00:54:24 -0400
From: James Fifield <fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Sat, 5 Apr 1997, David J. Murdoch wrote:

> With an asterisk in the passwd field, the passwd command operates normally.
> --
> 	David Murdoch

Debian doesn't seem to care one way or the other whether it's a * or x.  
Perhaps we should modify the shadowed passwd program to insert a * instead?

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James Fifield
<fifield@ug.cs.dal.ca>

Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into
super-edit-debug-compile mode?
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands, especially
Emacs.)



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