On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 13:07 -0700, David Maier wrote: > I'm running an FC2 system on which I don't care about password > security. PAM is running. I've been all over the HOWTO's and manual and > cannot find how to enable null passwords for a user. I've tried putting > a nullok argument into stacks in the login, passwd, and system-auth PAM > services, to no avail, and have run out of ideas. Obviously I'm a newbie > trying to get a handle on where to even look. > > Thanks for your help. > > Dave Maier One way (and probably not the 'right' way) is to hand edit the shadow file and remove everything from within the first and second ":" characters (the password). I found that with nothing there it will just let you in. This: ckloiber:$1$bxh7kMGh$8txM010iQj8VM0/LZXihM1:12576:0:99999:7::: becomes: ckloiber::12576:0:99999:7::: But for $DIETY sake, please don't put that machine on the internet. Even via dialup. You're asking for trouble. -- Chris Kloiber
