--- Hans Hvelplund Odborg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I don't mean to be rude or anything, but I've seen
> many answers like this on 
> different mailinglist archives and everyone seems to
> have an opinion of their 
> own regarding this. So I'd like to see documentation
> of some sort.
> 
> Example where ! is different from *:
>
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg04197.html
> 
> My original interest for this was sparked from
> gentoo.forums.org, where som 
> people write that changing ! into * in /etc/shadow
> helped them solve problems 
> with freenx. Which implies that * and ! does not
> mean the same.
> 
> This is why I'd like to find some kind of more less
> official documentation.
> -- 
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
> 

Did you see man 5 shadow?  I've used freenx
successfully with no need to touch /etc/shadow.

Zac


                
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