I'm looking at the man pages for passwd and shadow (man 5 passwd, man 5
shadow), plus the Linux Shadow Password HOWTO, and none of them seem to
match what is actually happening on the system with respect to the actual
usage of the shadow file. In particular, I'm curious about the * and !!
password entries in the /etc/shadow file.

I know that I'm supposed to use the source, but I think this will lead me
down the path of looking at all the libraries in PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules). Does anyone have a more succincint reference
available that I should consider?

Gus

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