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-rw-r--r--share/man/man5/passwd.57
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diff --git a/share/man/man5/passwd.5 b/share/man/man5/passwd.5
index daa1d842b9e..d2c17716fd6 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/passwd.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/passwd.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.37 2012/03/06 08:39:30 schwarze Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.5,v 1.38 2012/03/14 15:39:12 deraadt Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: passwd.5,v 1.4 1995/07/28 06:46:05 phil Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1988, 1991, 1993
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)passwd.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: March 6 2012 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 14 2012 $
.Dt PASSWD 5
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -124,7 +124,8 @@ By convention, accounts that are not intended to be logged in to
field.
Note that there is nothing special about
.Ql * ,
-it is just one of many strings that is not a valid encrypted password
+it is just one of many characters that cannot occur in a
+valid encrypted password
(see
.Xr crypt 3 ) .
Similarly, login accounts not allowing password authentication