Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login

[Eric <eric@lucii.org>]

I thought that it was crazy too but it's really not as 
crazy as it sounds:

  The computer has NO access to the internet - internal network only.

  The users are constrained by a login script to run only one 
    application and then they exit.

  They are not sophisticated users so breaking out to a shell prompt
    means nothing to them... when you say "root" they say "tree".

None of this (except the lack of internet connectivity) is a
guarantee of anything but it's a situation they've lived with
for about 5 or 6 years with their old SCO box without any hassles.
I've told them that it's best to use passwords - so they want all
the passwords to be the same 7 character phrase.  
Might as well have none :-P

I'm searching the PLUG archives as someone pointed out to me there
was a previous discussion on this very topic.

Thanks,
Eric


On Friday 30 December 2005 12:46 am, gyoza@comcast.net wrote:
> 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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