From: "Felix Miata" <mrmazda@xxxxxx>
> Rafa Quintanilla wrote:
>
> > I am using fedora and set two more users, one of them
> > my wife. I tried to leave her password blank, but
> > fedora wouldn't admit that (altho I have it so in MDK
> > 9.2, in the same hard disk). Does anyone know if that
> > is possible? How?
>
> useradd newuserloginname
> passwd -d newuserloginname
>
> man passwd calls -d diabling the password IIRC. Could be deleting it,
> but in any case I have no Mandrake or SuSE or Fedora or Corel or RedHat
> users with passwords except root. They're all me under a single roof,
> and I don't need protection from myself. :-)
> --
> "You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
> John 8:32 NIV
>
> Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409
Ah, that is where your touching faith in mankind came from.
I presume the machine is never connected to the Internet or always has
nice firewalls running. I presume you never lived in a city that more
or less required both a lock and a dead bolt plus perhaps some backups
for those two locking mechanisms. A password is only one lock in a
properly set of locks for your system's front door.
I should get the authorities to run you in for exposing yourself in
front of me this way. No password is like running around in a trench
coat without any pants or shorts on ready to "flash" people.
{^_-} Seriously, no password is very much not a good idea.
