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From: mrl@drutx.UUCP (LongoMR)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: star in password field
Message-ID: <2892@drutx.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 10:34:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 10:34:00 1985
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver
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Any non-matchable string in the password field (i.e. any string not
exactly 13 characters long) will disallow a manual login for anyone except
root since there can never be a match. This is sometimes useful for 
admin type logins which must exist for special software to run out
of cron, but should not have anyone manually logging in.
	Mark Longo		ATT ISL Denver