Re: [PLUG] stuied newbie problem...

[darxus@chaosreigns.com]

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, ChinFung wrote:

> i tryed to use the "passwd" command to create a no password user. but it
> won't let me, always say" password too short" or something like that. how
> could i do so?

Don't.  It's a bad idea.  

But if you really want to...

Edit the file /etc/passwd, and delete what is between the 1st & second
colons on the line starting with that username.  It should look something
like this (for username "test"):

test:x:1005:1005:,,,:/home/test:/bin/bash

(if you've got apparently random characters where the "x" is, you need to
shadow your password file)

Change it to look like this:

test::1005:1005:,,,:/home/test:/bin/bash


I say again... you do not want to do this.  Bad security stuff.
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