From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 26 19:35:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA29685 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:35:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from netrover.com (ottawa13.netrover.com [205.209.19.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA29679 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:35:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brianc@localhost) by netrover.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA00208; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:34:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: 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 References: <199703270302.VAA05104@main.gbdata.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-to: brianc@pobox.com In-Reply-To: ; from Snob Art Genre on Mar 26, 1997 19:25:57 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.