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| author |   schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2012-02-26 11:14:21 +0000 |
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| committer | schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org> | 2012-02-26 11:14:21 +0000 |
| commit | fd7d02e2e6ad34fd22d9e9515f97c353090b31e0 (patch) | |
| tree | bb61627bda5a6660160a697daf37588117b3ee88 | |
| parent | Add gus* at isapnp?. Last tested nine years ago but ought to still work. (diff) | |
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Document :*************: in the password field.
Triggered by a question from haesbaert@.
Feedback and ok jmc@, ok haesbaert@.
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/passwd.5 | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 index d9faf023476..45d28d4604e 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.35 2009/03/27 12:31:31 schwarze Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.36 2012/02/26 11:14:21 schwarze Exp $ .\" $NetBSD: passwd.5,v 1.4 1995/07/28 06:46:05 phil Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993 @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ .\" .\" @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: March 27 2009 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: February 26 2012 $ .Dt PASSWD 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ Note that there is nothing special about it is just one of many strings that is not a valid encrypted password (see .Xr crypt 3 ) . +Similarly, login accounts not allowing password authentication +but allowing other authentication methods, for example public key +authentication, conventionally have 13 stars in the +.Ar password +field. Because .Nm master.passwd contains the encrypted user passwords, it should not be readable by anyone |