Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:34:54 -0500 From: brianc@netrover.com (Brian Campbell) To: ben@narcissus.ml.org (Snob Art Genre) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts Message-ID: <Mutt.19970326223454.brianc@netrover.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326192438.4258A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>; from Snob Art Genre on Mar 26, 1997 19:25:57 -0800 References: <199703270302.VAA05104@main.gbdata.com> <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326192438.4258A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
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Snob Art Genre writes: > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Gary Clark II wrote: > > 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. > > Isn't that how you lock an account so that it isn't accessible at all? > Hmm, I just realized the original question is ambiguous. Brian, are you > trying to make a account inaccessible (i.e. no valid password at all) or > open (no password required at all)? I'm trying to make an account open. I tried '*' just in case -- behaves the same as an empty passwd field.
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