From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 5 12: 8:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ringworld.nanolink.com (ringworld.nanolink.com [195.24.48.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A31037B401 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 12:07:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 871 invoked by uid 1000); 5 Feb 2001 20:06:05 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 22:06:04 +0200 From: Peter Pentchev To: Zhiui Zhang Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No-passwd account and reboot records Message-ID: <20010205220603.A353@ringworld.oblivion.bg> Mail-Followup-To: Zhiui Zhang , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu on Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:18:23PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 09:18:23PM -0500, Zhiui Zhang wrote: > > Is it possible to create a no-password account? Is it possible to record > in a file the times of each reboots? If so, how to do this? Thanks. What is it that you need no-password accounts for? If it is for remotely executed commands, consider SSH identity files - they're just as easy to generate without a password, *but* they have the added benefit that a empty-password identity may be restricted to only executing certain commands, so it cannot be abused for break-ins or similar. G'luck, Peter -- This would easier understand fewer had omitted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message