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Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login
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On 12/30/05, Eric <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
>
> 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 :-)
>
Are you using shadowed passwords? If so, make sure you also have null
passwords in /etc/shadow (or whatever the shadowing system considers
null, it might try to hash a null string anyway!)
-- Doug
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