On 24 Teveth 5762, Tim Legg wrote: > Is there any reason the password must be a "*"? It seams that this > could be a security risk. Couldn't anybody just login as mailman and > know that the password is "*" and do all kinds of mean things?
The value is not the actual password, but the one-way encryption of the password; in other words, if your password, hashed, is "*", then you can get in. Pretty much impossible; the effect is to disable logins on this account for anyone but root. -- Charles Sebold 24th of Teveth, 5762 LCMS - Office of Information Systems http://unix.ois.org/ *** Opinions expressed herein are not necessarily *** *** those of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod *** ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
