On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 12:15:24PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org> writes:
> > By default, the password is set to '*'.  Or is it 13 '*'?  I can't
> > remember now, it's been a while. Whatever, it's not a valid value
> > that a password will hash to.
> 
> It's 13 x '*', which is a) not what's checked in to
> src/etc/master.passwd for system accounts and b) I prefer a single *.
	I believe those mean different things.  13 x '*' means "account disabled",
while a single '*' mean "account has no password".  That's a big difference
when there are non-password login methods available (like ssh rsa/dsa key)

eric