From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 19:26:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29054 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:26:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (root@brosenga.Pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29049 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:26:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04275; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:25:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:25:57 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Gary Clark II cc: brianc@pobox.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts In-Reply-To: <199703270302.VAA05104@main.gbdata.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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)? > 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 > Ben "You have your mind on computers, it seems."