On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:43:29AM -0500, Jim Popovitch wrote:
On Mon, 2018-11-19 at 08:38 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > If you're only going to login to the account using ssh keys, you > don't need to give it a valid password hash at all. Just put a > string of rubbish (English words qualify) in the hash field of > /etc/shadow. Don't do that. Just use a *.Something that's always bugged me... is there any difference between using * or ! (both are valid)?
! locks the account, * is a convention that means "no password".