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star out: v. [University of York, England] To replace a user's encrypted password
in /etc/passwd with a single asterisk. Under Unix this is not a legal
encryption of any password; hence the user is not permitted to log in. In
general, accounts like adm, news, and daemon are permanently “starred
out”; occasionally a real user might have this inflicted upon
him/her as a punishment, e.g. “Graham was starred out for playing
Omega in working hours”. Also occasionally known as The Order Of The
Gold Star in this context. “Don't do that, or you'll be awarded the
Order of the Gold Star...” Compare
disusered.
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