No subject

[Mario Vukelic]

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 21:44 -0700, David Vincent wrote:
> the password is 
> randomly generated 

Everything else was correct, but this was wrong. What in fact happens is
that the root account looks like this in /etc/shadow

root:!: (...)

The "!" in the password is by definition not a valid result by the
encryption algorithm. This means that there exists no password that will
be encrypted as "!". This in turn means that "!" defines that no valid
password exists for this account.