In message <200204130017.g3D0HAE05367@guild.plethora.net>
	on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 19:17:10 -0500,
	seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) wrote:
> So, system accounts that have no password use '*'.  Some pkgsrc accounts use
> '*************'.
> 
> Why?
I don't know.  But,

o single '*' is derived from default master.passwd file.

o '*' x 13 is derived from useradd(8).

So, not only pkgsrc but using sushi(8) gives '*' x 13.

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Takahiro Kambe <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>