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Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login
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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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