20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
14:16
Thorsten Kukuk
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.)