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From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@above.proper.com>
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Subject: Need to explain * in master.passwd in passwd.5 man page
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>Number:         86234
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Need to explain * in master.passwd in passwd.5 man page
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    keramida
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Sep 16 22:50:02 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 25 10:10:58 GMT 2006
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 25 10:10:58 GMT 2006
>Originator:     Paul Hoffman
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
All
>Description:
	The passwd.5 man page describes what * in the password field for the
	passwd file means, but not for master.passwd, which turns out to use
	* for a very different (and good) purpose.
>How-To-Repeat:
	man 5 master.passwd
>Fix:
	At the end of the paragraph that begins "The password field is the
	encrypted form...", add:

	In the master.passwd file, a password of "*" is used to indicate that no
	one can ever log into that account. The field only contains encrypted
	passwords, and "*" can never be the result of encrypting a password.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida 
Responsible-Changed-By: keramida 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Sep 18 15:32:07 GMT 2005 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
I'll handle this. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86234 
State-Changed-From-To: open->patched 
State-Changed-By: keramida 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 18 15:40:32 GMT 2005 
State-Changed-Why:  
Committed to CURRENT.  I will merge this to RELENG_6 and other 
branches in a week or so. 

Thanks for the submission :) 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86234 
State-Changed-From-To: patched->closed 
State-Changed-By: delphij 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 25 10:09:48 UTC 2006 
State-Changed-Why:  
keramida@ has MFC'ed the change as share/man/man5/passwd.5,v 1.44.2.1, 
back to RELENG_6. 
GNATa: Enter the reason for changing this PR's state here. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=86234 
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