Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?

To: "Dr. Mark A. Friedman" <drmarkafriedman@drmarkafriedman.com>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Empty password field for libuuid & Debian-exim - Why not a security risk?
From: Frank Lin PIAT <fpiat@klabs.be>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:02:23 +0200
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On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 22:55 -0400, Dr. Mark A. Friedman wrote:
> Upon installation, Debian includes users libuuid and Debian-exim in
> /etc/shadow with an empty password field:
> 

Which release do you use?

I checked some of my systems, those accounts are locked (shadow have an
exclamation mark in the password field).

Franklin

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