It means an account that can not be logged in to.
The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so
no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out
the account from login.
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In the last episode (Sep 16), Paul Hoffman said:
In 5.4 (and probably lots of other versions), the master.passwd file
is pre-seeded with lots of accounts such as daemon, operator, and so
on. The master.passwd file looks like:
daemon:*:1:1::0:0:Owner of many system
At 3:27 PM -0700 9/16/05, Chris St Denis wrote:
It means an account that can not be logged in to.
The in the hash algorithm used in master.password nothing encrypts to * so
no possible password will ever match the encrypted value * thus locking out
the account from login.
Arrrgh. Whomever
