From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 19:03:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27373 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:03:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR1-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27347 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05104; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 21:02:53 -0600 (CST) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199703270302.VAA05104@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts To: brianc@pobox.com Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 21:02:52 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from Brian Campbell at "Mar 26, 97 09:13:00 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. You want to put a '*' in place of the password. Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1