[PLUG] Serial terminal shell login

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

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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