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- Subject: Re: user account without a password, HOW?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.203008.3942@nic.csu.net>
- From: jkohler@neptune.uucp (john kohler 09-24-92)
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:30:07 PST
- References: <1993Jan26.134058.10183@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Organization: CSLA
- Keywords: account password
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- Simply delete the second field in you /etc/passwd entry for the user you wish
- to not have a password. for example, if there is a password it puts a bunch
- of characters between the 2 colons that look like gibberish. Remove these,
- and when the user logs in they will not be required to enter a password.
- This is also how you set a password if a user forgets their password.
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