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From: brianc@netrover.com (Brian Campbell)
To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre)
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Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts
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Snob Art Genre writes:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Brian Campbell wrote:
> 
> > After installing 2.2.1, can anyone change an account which has a
> > password so that it no longer does?
> > 
> > I've had no luck.  The obvious vipw and remove empty passwd method
> > doesn't seem to work.
> 
> "Remove empty passwd"?  Are you deleting everything in the second field? 

Err, yeah.  Remove existing encrypted password, or empty password field.
That's what I meant to say.  Did you try it?  Did it work for you?