Linux /etc/shadow encrypted password field
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| - | Description of the encrypted password field in ''/etc/shadow'' on Linux systems: | + | Description of the encrypted password field in ''/etc/shadow'' on Red Hat Linux systems: |
* Contains only '''!''' or '''*''' -- account is locked; user is unable to login | * Contains only '''!''' or '''*''' -- account is locked; user is unable to login | ||
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Description of the encrypted password field in /etc/shadow on Red Hat Linux systems:
- Contains only ! or * -- account is locked; user is unable to login
- Contains only !! -- no password has been set; user is unable to login
- Begins with !! -- password is locked by prefixing it with an invalid string (!), and can be unlocked using passwd -u
- Begins with $1$ -- password is encrypted using the MD5 hash algorithm
- All others -- password is encrypted using the crypt library function
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