! is the character used to "disable" someone's login. !! means it's probably been done twice or no password was originally given.

Fil

Anthony Rumble wrote:
On Tue, 27 May 2003, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:

I think that just means the password has never been set..

I believe you can configure a system where a user can login without a password, and if there is no inital password, it will prompt you for an initial password.

Thats just a guess.

Anthony


when reading the man pages for shadow/passwd/crypt (3,5) you cannot find
an explanation of the "!!" in the password field of the shadow file.
I know what "*" means, but I cannot find "!!".

So, what does it mean?



jobst








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