Monday, February 25, 2019

Re: security - preferred way to make check_access_file happy?

> Use vipw to put 13 * in the password field
>
> From passwd(5)
> [...]
> authentication, conventionally have 13 asterisks in the password
> field.

Thank you! Now that I know what I'm looking for, I can see the relevant
code in security(8), too.

I wonder if there's a way for ports to do that for me while calling
useradd? Another rabbit hole to go down.

Thanks again,
-Adam

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