On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 03:05:53PM -0500, Eric Haszlakiewicz wrote:
> 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)

	hmm...  Looks like I got that wrong.  At least for ssh, there's no
difference in behaviour between '*' and '*************'.  (although it would
be nice if there was)

eric