From 98e7508080ca6a467018db7866998381660cfc78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Skip Montanaro Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 04:31:38 +0000 Subject: Backport the non-spwd part of the change on head. --- Doc/lib/libpwd.tex | 5 +++-- 1 file 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: -- cgit v0.12