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miggy

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From: MT

Registered: 2007-11-05

Posts: 67

editing group file

normally when updating my pacnew files I edit the pacnew files and replace the original files but for /etc/group I've done (did? only once maybe?) it the other way because I'm a bit confused.

Can someone help explain to me...when a group has a non-empty password field, ie the "x" in

mpd:x:45:

how do I handle that.  For example, suppose I wanted to edit group.pacnew to include the mpd group.  Is it possible to do that by hand?  would I actually type an "x"?  Or is it some sort of encrypted thing or what's going on?

Thanks

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: editing group file

That's a plain ASCII 'x' character yes, it means that the actual encrypted password is stored in /etc/shadow .