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Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login
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On Fri, December 30, 2005 12:45 am, 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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I believe there was a conversation about something _very_ similar, if not
exactly this a while ago. Search through the archive for "Terminal/shell
login with no password", and the solution was offered there, iirc.
-Cos
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