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Diffstat (limited to 'man/man5/shadow.5')
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/man/man5/shadow.5 b/man/man5/shadow.5 index c136469a..9544ce6e 100644 --- a/man/man5/shadow.5 +++ b/man/man5/shadow.5 @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ .\" Title: shadow .\" Author: Julianne Frances Haugh .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.79.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/> -.\" Date: 06/13/2019 +.\" Date: 12/01/2019 .\" Manual: File Formats and Conversions -.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.7 +.\" Source: shadow-utils 4.8 .\" Language: English .\" -.TH "SHADOW" "5" "06/13/2019" "shadow\-utils 4\&.7" "File Formats and Conversions" +.TH "SHADOW" "5" "12/01/2019" "shadow\-utils 4\&.8" "File Formats and Conversions" .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- .\" * Define some portability stuff .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -45,18 +45,18 @@ It must be a valid account name, which exist on the system\&. .PP \fBencrypted password\fR .RS 4 +This field may be empty, in which case no passwords are required to authenticate as the specified login name\&. However, some applications which read the +/etc/shadow +file may decide not to permit any access at all if the password field is empty\&. +.sp +A password field which starts with an exclamation mark means that the password is locked\&. The remaining characters on the line represent the password field before the password was locked\&. +.sp Refer to \fBcrypt\fR(3) for details on how this string is interpreted\&. .sp If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result of \fBcrypt\fR(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use a unix password to log in (but the user may log in the system by other means)\&. -.sp -This field may be empty, in which case no passwords are required to authenticate as the specified login name\&. However, some applications which read the -/etc/shadow -file may decide not to permit any access at all if the password field is empty\&. -.sp -A password field which starts with an exclamation mark means that the password is locked\&. The remaining characters on the line represent the password field before the password was locked\&. .RE .PP \fBdate of last password change\fR |