Bug 86234

Summary: Need to explain * in master.passwd in passwd.5 man page
Product: Documentation Reporter: Paul Hoffman <phoffman>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Paul Hoffman 2005-09-16 23:50:02 UTC 
	The passwd.5 man page describes what * in the password field for the
	passwd file means, but not for master.passwd, which turns out to use
	* for a very different (and good) purpose.

Fix: 

At the end of the paragraph that begins "The password field is the
	encrypted form...", add:

	In the master.passwd file, a password of "*" is used to indicate that no
	one can ever log into that account. The field only contains encrypted
	passwords, and "*" can never be the result of encrypting a password.
How-To-Repeat: 	man 5 master.passwd
Comment 1 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-09-18 16:32:07 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->keramida

I'll handle this.
Comment 2 Giorgos Keramidas freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-09-18 16:40:32 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->patched

Committed to CURRENT.  I will merge this to RELENG_6 and other 
branches in a week or so. 

Thanks for the submission :)
Comment 3 Xin LI freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-09-25 11:09:48 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: patched->closed

keramida@ has MFC'ed the change as share/man/man5/passwd.5,v 1.44.2.1, 
back to RELENG_6. 
GNATa: Enter the reason for changing this PR's state here.