25 Jun
2003
25 Jun
'03
01:46
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 03:25, Robert C. Paulsen Jr. wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 12:51:53AM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
That's not a very good idea, it confuses the system. su won't repect it
Right -- you need to put the "x" back in before setting the pasword again.
You didn't read what I wrote. In SuSE 8.2, just removing the 'x' from /etc/passwd isn't enough to be able to su without passwd. su won't repect it and will still read from /etc/shadow But I realised the whole point is moot. If you're root, you can just run 'passwd' to set a new password, since it won't ask you for your old one.