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passwd.5: Correct note on passwd field value when shadowing is enabled 

When password shadowing is enabled, the password field
contains an 'x' (not a "8').

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2012-02-08 07:01:11 +13:00
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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ hardware was too slow to crack a well-chosen password, and moreover the
basic assumption used to be that of a friendly user-community.
These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite, where
.I /etc/passwd
has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords,
has an \(aqx\(aq character in the password field,
and the encrypted passwords are in
.IR /etc/shadow ,
which is readable by the superuser only.