Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 00:32:33 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: brianc@pobox.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts Message-ID: <199703270532.AAA13085@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970326223454.brianc@netrover.com> from "Brian Campbell" at Mar 26, 97 10:34:54 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Brian Campbell had to walk into mine and say: > 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. > > The problem is that so far you haven't described what happens in either case. All you said in your original message was that it 'doesn't work.' I'd like to state for the record that there's little I hate more than when somebody comes to me complaining that something 'doesn't work' and then expects me to divine the nature of their problem and solve it without any further details. If you really expect anyone to help you with this, you're going to have to do more than say 'it doesn't work.' Explain how you arrived at the conclusion that it 'doesn't work' in as much detail as possible. It's not like we can see what you're doing from here, you know. That said, it should be noted that unless you specify otherwise, the system is installed without a password on the root account. I installed a couple of 2.2 GAMMA releases like this and never noticed any problem. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" =============================================================================
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