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From: subbarao@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kartik Subbarao)
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Subject: Re: What does '*' symbol in /etc/passwd means?
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Date: 27 May 91 12:33:35 GMT
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In article <1991May27.024122.1255@csc.canberra.edu.au> rvp@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
>Yes, that's right.  It is also more secure if you can include characters in
>this field which don't belong to the encrypted alphabet.  One of these
>characters is '*'.

Doesn't matter, so long as it is not 13 letters long.


		-Kartik


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