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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-02-08 07:01:11 +1300 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2012-02-08 07:01:11 +1300 |
| commit | c1b273fce8835d881aadef26a3a89ed793e868b5 (patch) | |
| tree | 5a59cc42adf233ef5d223d23a3612953add9da69 /man5 | |
| parent | 78fc91ec1b2ffd0bd15a4d3c43f1e3e7c7d1cdec (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-c1b273fce8835d881aadef26a3a89ed793e868b5.tar.gz | |
passwd.5: Correct note on passwd field value when shadowing is enabled
When password shadowing is enabled, the password field
contains an 'x' (not a "8').
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/passwd.5 | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/passwd.5 b/man5/passwd.5 index c2da9564ae..855e835167 100644 --- a/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/man5/passwd.5 @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ hardware was too slow to crack a well-chosen password, and moreover the basic assumption used to be that of a friendly user-community. These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite, where .I /etc/passwd -has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords, +has an \(aqx\(aq character in the password field, and the encrypted passwords are in .IR /etc/shadow , which is readable by the superuser only. |