On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:10:31 +0800 Chris Kloiber <ckloiber@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. > Easier way to accomplish the same thing is to use the passwd command to remove the password for a user, as root: # passwd -d <username> Cheers, Sean
