On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 18:16, James Scott wrote: > I am attempting to configure a package that is instructing me to > assign a password to the user account of a different package. I am > new to Linux, so I am a little afraid as to what affect this might > have on my system. > > When I look at the /etc/shadow file, the password field is currently > an exclamation point (:!:). I understand that an asterisk (:*:) would > mean that the account is disabled, but I don't what the exclamation means? > > If I assign a password to this account, and it breaks the other > package, how can I change it back to whatever the :!: is? Well you can always edit your shadow- file as root an change whatever is in there back to the :!:. This would reset the password back to whatever ! means, I must admit that I do not know what it does mean. But at least you would be able to go back to the previous state the system was in. -- o) Derek Wueppelmann (o (D . monkey@monkeynet.ca D). ((` http://www.monkeynet.ca/ ( ) `
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