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10.4: Hide all low UID users from the login window
Can you explain further what this actually does? It concerns me to add something called passwd with a value of "*" w/o knowing what it does/why the sysem ignores it in the login window.
10.4: Hide all low UID users from the login window
It's an olde worlde way of preventing a user from logging in. Bit of a hack IMO, but quite normal.
Another common method is to set the default login shell to /usr/bin/false I think this is mostly from the days when users were defined in the /etc/passwd file. The login window seems to respect this behaviour. You can see OSX's /etc/passwd equivalent by typing this in a Terminal window.
The second column is the password field. These are all asterisks in this output, but the ones that do not allow login will have a single *.
10.4: Hide all low UID users from the login window
The convention of having a '*' in the password entry to block logins, started back in the days when the actual encrypted passwd was stored in /etc/passwd. |
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