[Pkg-shadow-devel] Patch for shadow.5 man page

[Christian Perrier]

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Tomasz,=20

I'm not sure I forwarded this one to you. This patch better documents
the meaning of "=A0!" or "*" in /etc/shadow.


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--- shadow.5.old	2005-06-08 22:34:43.000000000 +0200
+++ shadow.5	2005-06-08 22:37:00.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
 example if it starts with "$1$" it means the MD5\-based algorithm was used.
 .PP
 Refer to \fBcrypt\fR(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.
+If the password field contains some string that is not a valid result
+of \fBcrypt\fR(3), for instance ! or *, the user will not be able to use
+a unix password to log in, subject to \fBpam\fR(7).
 .PP
 The date of the last password change is given as the number of days since
 Jan 1, 1970. The password may not be changed again until the proper number

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