Re: set no password in a fedora user

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On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Rafa Quintanilla wrote:

> From: Rafa Quintanilla <rafael_quintanilla_perez@xxxxxxxx>
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: set no password in a fedora user
> Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:50:27 +0100 (CET)
> Reply-To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi,
> 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?

See "passwd --help"

>From the passwd man page:

       -u     This  is  the  reverse  of  the  -l   option - it will unlock the
              account password by removing the ! prefix. This option is avail-
              able  to  root  only.  By default passwd will refuse to create a
              password less account (it will not unlock  an  account  that  has
              only  "!" as a password). The force option -f will override this
              protection.

So try:

	passwd -u -f her-account
	passwd -d    her-account

You can also edit the passwd file and its shadow file
with 'vipw' as root.  The encripted passwd itself is in the 
shadow file (/etc/shadow).
Change her line (might be something like this):
  hat:$1$NT6kqc.a$td5H1qhI31Ee3y3yRZelq.:12379:-1:99999:-1:::
     |^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^|
To look like this:
  hat::12379:-1:99999:-1:::

It may be that your 'pam' settings will not validate any user
with an empty/unset passwd.  See /etc/pam.conf and also the pam
man page. In general this is a very good idea and may be the
default.

As root you could set passwd to some very simple and easy to
remember set of key strokes.  This is a MUCH better thing to do
than no pass word at all.


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