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| author | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-09-19 16:32:27 +0000 |
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| committer | keramida <keramida@FreeBSD.org> | 2005-09-19 16:32:27 +0000 |
| commit | 745da316335f104d267ad6c4b565be45311e5d6e (patch) | |
| tree | 8eb12f56a24b133064fbc1ef1ff591cae4d6591a | |
| parent | aaf789e510b326aa5b4a0f8182913e2c4ea68048 (diff) | |
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A single `*' character doesn't disable *ANY* form of authentication.
Make sure that this is clearly stated.
Prodded by: simon, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk>
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/passwd.5 | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 index a9b5d39..fbb7817 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 @@ -110,7 +110,11 @@ In the .Nm master.passwd file, a password of .Ql * -is used to indicate that no one can ever log into that account. +is used to indicate that no one can ever log into that account +using password authentication (logins through other forms of +authentication, i.e.\& using +.Xr ssh 1 +keys, will still work). The field only contains encrypted passwords, and .Ql * can never be the result of encrypting a password. |
