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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 07:17:10PM -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> So, system accounts that have no password use '*'.  Some pkgsrc accounts =
use
> '*************'.
>=20
> Why?
>=20
> '*' is correct and unambiguous.  What's this with the 13 *'s?  I've also =
seen
> other admins copying this in new accounts.  Argh!

Huh.

And here I thought *LK* was correct, so that sshd would know to also
not log the user in. (Or is that just that *NP* will tell it that it
*is* allowed to log the user in, and anything else starting with a *
will keep them out?)

--=20
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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