landon: /etc/passwd passwd field

Date: Sun, 6 Apr 1997 08:46:57 -0300
From: "David J. Murdoch" <murdoch@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
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On landon the shadow passwd system is not in use.

On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, James Fifield wrote:

> 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?
> 
> --
> 
> 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.)
--
	David Murdoch



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