Locked accounts

[berni9]

Please excuse my ignorance,as a newbie to Solaris I would greatly appreciate your answer to the following question:

When one looks in the etc/shadow file to see if an account is inaccessible(locked)...everything that I have read indicates that I should see an entry like that below:

sam:*LK*

If instead I see an entry like this:

sam:LK

Is this the same thing.....does the second entry without the asterisks also render the SAM account inaccessible (locked)?

Thank you in advance for your help on this..............

 

[segment]

If your unsure about whether someone is using a password just do

/usr/bin/logins -p

perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(40*2),sqrt(7600),(unpack(c,Q)-3+1+3+3-7),oct(104),10,oct(101));'

 

[berni9]

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it...