On Monday 20 June 2005 16:16, Mark Gray wrote:

Thorsten Kukuk writes:

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On Mon, Jun 20, Chadley Wilson wrote:

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Greetings

In one of our systems we require the system to have no password for a specific user,

In 9.2 passwd -d <username> achieved this, how do I achieve it in 9.3?

In the same way, this was not changed as a view in /etc/shadow will show you.

While the password is removed, it is now impossible to log into an account using a totally empty password. (This may be caused by "blowfish" encryption, or it might be because of some option or feature of pam (personally, I just broke down and entered a password, but the original poster is correct.)

I can say I solved it by rebuilding pam login as follows: auth required /lib/security/pam_securetty.so auth required /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 password required /lib/security/pam_unix.so shadow nullok use_authtok session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so I know many people think this is crazy, so I just want to say that there are certian conditions in this world that call for measures that others may or may not agree with. In this case it is of absolute importance to have a password-less login, It is for a point of sale system and the keyboard does not have the normal keys (a,b,c,d,e,...), so we program one key to input the username. TIA -- -- Chadley Wilson Production Line Superintendant Pinnacle Micro Manufacturers of Proline Computers ==================================== Exercise freedom, Use LINUX =====================================