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On Thu, 27 Mar 1997, Andre LeClaire wrote:

> I just upgraded to 2.2.1 via cvsup & make world. Now when I try to add a
> user with no password or remove a user's password field using vipw, a
> login by that user still requires a password. I know it's not a good idea
> to try to do this, but it was possible with 2.2.0 and below, so I'm
> wondering if this was an intentional change or what?

Hm, working okay on my 2.2-gamma box.

Try using adduser to create the account.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major