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Old 09-09-2005, 11:39 AM
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Does anyone know what "!!" represents in the password field of the /etc/passwd file.
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Your password is stored in other file like /etc/shadow or /etc/security/passwd. Btw which version of Solaris are you using? Latest version uses x and not the an ! (exclamation point).
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