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Re: [PLUG] Serial terminal shell login
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On Friday 30 December 2005 3:00 am, Cosmin Nicolaescu wrote:
> 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
> >
>
> 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
Yeah, there was. Back in August. MY same question too! Lots of good
advice received. It was me that asked the same question. :-P
Sorry for the additional/wasted bandwidth.
Eric
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