[Pkg-shadow-devel] Manpage Review (for Tomasz)

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle at debian.org):

> I think that this means that en empty argument passed to "-p" will
> disable the account....

Well, not exactly...

root at mykerinos:~# userdel -r krabs
root at mykerinos:~# useradd -p "" krabs
root at mykerinos:~# grep krabs /etc/shadow
krabs::13169:0:99999:7:::


A disabled account should be like this:

root at mykerinos:~# grep krabs /etc/shadow
krabs:*:13169:0:99999:7:::