Machine Account?? (Samba)

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wayneh

I am new to FreeBSD (and to linux) so I am trying to learn, but have hit a road block.
I have Samba running on FreeBSD - Windows XP / Vista machines need to login to departmental folders on server. I am trying to set the machines up as my predecessor had done, but am not having much luck.
I have created the machine accounts. They appear to match, except for the second field in the master.passwd file.
Previous machines 'mac-name':*LOCKED**:uid:gid....
New machines 'mac-name':*LOCKED*$2a$040....:uid:gid...

I realize the stuff after *LOCKED* is the password, but, why are they different?

That's my question.

Thanks for any help.
Wayne
 
wayneh said:
I have created the machine accounts. They appear to match, except for the second field in the master.passwd file.
Previous machines 'mac-name':*LOCKED**:uid:gid....
New machines 'mac-name':*LOCKED*$2a$040....:uid:gid...

I realize the stuff after *LOCKED* is the password, but, why are they different?
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The first one has password authentication disabled.

From man 5 passwd:

A password of `*' indicates that password authentication is disabled for
that account (logins through other forms of authentication, e.g., using
ssh(1) keys, will still work). The field only contains encrypted pass-
words, and `*' can never be the result of encrypting a password.

An encrypted password prefixed by `*LOCKED*' means that the account is
temporarily locked out and no one can log into it using any authentica-
tion. For a convenient command-line interface to account locking, see
pw(8).
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