What does '*' symbol in /etc/passwd means?

[Kartik Subbarao]

In article <1991May27.024122.1255 at csc.canberra.edu.au> rvp at softserver.canberra.edu.au (Rey Paulo) writes:
>Yes, that's right.  It is also more secure if you can include characters in
>this field which don't belong to the encrypted alphabet.  One of these
>characters is '*'.

Doesn't matter, so long as it is not 13 letters long.


		-Kartik


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