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Re: [PLUG] Terminal/shell login with no password
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Use "vipw" to edit the password file when making these types of
changes, DONT simply edit /etc/passwd.
clear out the password between the two colons
You want -> user::1000:1000 instead of -> user:$1Sfd5s:1000:1000
Then save and exit out of vipw. That should be it.
-john
On Aug 20, 2005, at 8:29 PM, Eric wrote:
I need some SysAdmin advice...
I have a Red Hat box that I'm installing some software on and the
users expect
to connect with no password. I'm okay with that since it's not on the
network and they are all hard-wired terminals. First I tried zeroing
out the
password in the neat little gooey (GUI) tool but it won't let me save
the
user that way. Failing that, I tried to replace the "x" in the
password file
with nothing. No joy - the login fails without even asking for the
password.
Does this mean that I have to tinker with PAM? Last time I tried
that I
froze myself out of the damn box so bad I had to boot into single user
mode
and un-do my mistake(s). Since then I've just left it alone :-)
Thanks,
Eric
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