From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 13 12:23:28 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA19356 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:23:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.jorsm.com (mercury.jorsm.com [207.112.128.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA19349 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 12:23:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jer@jorsm.com) Received: from localhost (jer@localhost) by mercury.jorsm.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA14973; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:22:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 14:22:39 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeremy Shaffner To: Paulo Fragoso cc: Tom , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Finger and getpwent In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 10 Jul 1998, Paulo Fragoso wrote: > > But I'm using vipw to edit this files. I would like to leave coments in > /etc/master.passwd and /etc/passwd. > > In /etc/master.passwd edited with vipw: > > user1:(password):... > user2:(password):... > #user3:(password):... > this users stopped logins temporarily > user4:(password):... > Bad form. Instead place an asterisk '*' in front of their password: user3:*Ka1Jbl2sowmOls:.... -===================================================================- Jeremy Shaffner JORSM Internet Senior Technical Support Northwest Indiana's Premium jer@jorsm.com Internet Service Provider support@jorsm.com http://www.jorsm.com -===================================================================- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message