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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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@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ hardware was too slow to crack a well-chosen password, and moreover the
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basic assumption used to be that of a friendly user-community.
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These days many people run some version of the shadow password suite, where
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.I /etc/passwd
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has asterisks (*) instead of encrypted passwords,
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has an \(aqx\(aq character in the password field,
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and the encrypted passwords are in
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.IR /etc/shadow ,
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which is readable by the superuser only.
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