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Date:      Wed, 26 Mar 1997 18:56:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
To:        brianc@pobox.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: non-passworded accounts
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.970326185534.3921A-100000@narcissus.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970326215056.brianc@netrover.com>

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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Brian Campbell wrote:

> Snob Art Genre writes:
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, 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.
> > 
> > "Remove empty passwd"?  Are you deleting everything in the second field? 
> 
> Err, yeah.  Remove existing encrypted password, or empty password field.
> That's what I meant to say.  Did you try it?  Did it work for you?

Yes, I tried it and it works.  I can't think of any reason why it wouldn't
work for you, too. 



 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."




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