Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:47:11 +0100 From: Walter Hop <walter@binity.com> To: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> Cc: "Houben,G.J.J. (Geert)" <G.Houben@fontys.nl>, "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A * as encrypted password? Message-ID: <35366272722.20010307204711@binity.com> In-Reply-To: <3AA68D43.98A3D9F@i-clue.de> References: <C1E0E1EF0987D3119E720008C70D266601800AF0@fontmail02.fontys.nl> <3AA683B3.BC99C209@i-clue.de> <56363525492.20010307200123@binity.com> <3AA68D43.98A3D9F@i-clue.de>
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[in reply to so@server.i-clue.de, 07-03-2001] > The vipw tool encrypts the "*" to a valid passwd string, thus you may > login using the passwd "*". It doesn't do that on my system (4.2-RELEASE), maybe this is different for other releases. Anyway, editing /etc/master.passwd will work too. But don't forget to do a "pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd" afterwards, to update the pwd.db and spwd.db files. -- I DON'T CARE WHERE, JUST FAR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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