From: htoaster@yabbs
To: mephisto@yabbs
Subject: re: Shadowd PW files:
Date: Tue Jan 18 23:44:14 1994

In message re: Shadowd PW files:, mephisto said:
> What does an 'x' in the password field of a passwd file mean?  Normal
> accounts have visible passwords, but some (i.e. uucp, daemon, etc) have
> an 'x' in the password field... are these passwords shadowed?

It just means that it is an invalid login.  The crypt() function encrypts
to 13 characters, no matter what the input is, so it could never evaluate
as equal to a one character string.

htoaster