gyoza on 30 Dec 2005 05:46:42 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login


That is crazy.

Eric wrote:

>I've tinkering with a Linux (RedHat ES4) box that has some serial 
>(dumb) terminals attached.  I don't know much about them but I 
>got them working anyway.  What fun!
>
>Ideally, what I'd like to do now is arrange for a specific sub-set 
>of user accounts to be able to log in without a password.  
>If from the serial terminals only then so much the better.
>
>Various sources inform me that having a null password in the 
>/etc/password file will take care of that but I've tried that
>with no success.  Now I'm reading some PAM documentation but 
>that's strangely opaque and unrewarding :-)
>
>Anybody have any suggestions on how to achieve a "no password"
>login?
>
>TIA
>Eric
>  
>
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