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From: acharya@sbcs.UUCP (Shridhar Acharya)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: star in password field
Message-ID: <302@sbcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-May-85 13:17:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.302
Posted: Thu May 23 13:17:16 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 30-May-85 03:30:12 EDT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, SUNY@Stony Brook
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> 
> does anyone know what a * in the password field in /etc/passwd
> or /etc/group  means??  thanks
> 
> 			(ihnp4, allegra)!csd2!rosenblg
> or                                      rosenblg@csd2


The * in the password file prevents a person from logging
in on the machine from a local terminal. The only way that the
user can login on the machine is by rlogin's from other machines.

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