Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On 16 Mar 1999, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> > We need a general way to say "account is valid but password field is
> > not", as in, for instance, ssh only accounts.
> > 
> > How about another character besides "*" for that? Perhaps a "#"?
> 
> I like some sort of list. "*" would, as present, mean no-valid-password.
> But we could have a lot of different values. The main cluster at Stanford
> uses AFS for afs-domain passwords. ssh would make sense for what you
> describe. And I'd vote for a short phrase rather than "#" :-)

This makes more sense to me.  "*SSHONLY*", "*GONE*" (the one I use here
at work for people who have left but still own files on the system), etc
is easier than remembering what "#" and "%" and so on stood fore...

Simon.