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| author | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-03-02 04:31:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> | 2005-03-02 04:31:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 98e7508080ca6a467018db7866998381660cfc78 (patch) | |
| tree | 1dddeb7b794714b86d3bcb10aba45c070ac57f24 | |
| parent | 7006512160c96497ae7cbdd59e5448e21c0efe04 (diff) | |
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Backport the non-spwd part of the change on head.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/lib/libpwd.tex | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex b/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex index 1e7a1c8..ab0608d 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libpwd.tex @@ -29,9 +29,10 @@ The uid and gid items are integers, all others are strings. contains a password encrypted with a DES derived algorithm (see module \refmodule{crypt}\refbimodindex{crypt}). However most modern unices use a so-called \emph{shadow password} system. On those unices the -field \code{pw_passwd} only contains a asterisk (\code{'*'}) or the +\var{pw_passwd} field only contains an asterisk (\code{'*'}) or the letter \character{x} where the encrypted password is stored in a file -\file{/etc/shadow} which is not world readable.} +\file{/etc/shadow} which is not world readable. Whether the \var{pw_passwd} +field contains anything useful is system-dependent.} It defines the following items: |