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 -- KPLUG-Newbie@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie