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Re: [SLE] passwd -d suse 9.3
  • From: Mark Gray <markgray-temp-1117739497@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: 20 Jun 2005 10:16:54 -0400
  • Message-id: <6soea1f6zt.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Jun 20, Chadley Wilson wrote:
>
>> 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.)


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