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Bogus /etc/shadow docs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Bayne)
Thu Nov 5 15:10:33 1998
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 12:07:25 -0800
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From: Sam Bayne <sbayne@nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu>
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According to all the various man pages, HOW-TOs, and even a brief look at
the source (of the shadow-utils tarball), the last field of the /etc/shadow
entry should be an unused, "reserved flag". In the source it constantly
gets set to "-1".
But when I look at my /etc/shadow, I see final fields with values of:
-1,0,134529092,134528244, and nothing.
What gives? Do I have a corrupt shadow file, or is there something using
that field that I'm not being told about?
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Sam Bayne -NT,Novell,HP-UX,Linux Sysadmin
sbayne@nsccux.sccd.ctc.edu (206) 527-3762
North Seattle Community College/Computing Services
9600 College Way N/Seattle,WA 98133
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