I know that I can use some other characters too to disable it.
But at my work, people are almost "paranoid" about security and
the Security admins want to know each little detail. Especially, when ESM
"ESM - Enterprise Security Manager" raises a flag.
I guess, if it doesn't make any difference, then the same character
should be used for all these accounts, otherwise it just confuses people.
Werner
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> Hi Werner,
>
> > Can someone tell me why a difference is made for the users xfs, named,
> > etc. to use "!!" and not "*" in the password field of the /etc/shadow
> > file?
>
> I wouldn't know why, but both versions disable the password for the user. You
> could probably use "X" or whatever as well.
>
> Bye,
>
> Leonard.
>
>
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