Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 09:14:43 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: brianc@pobox.com, davidn@blaze.net.au (David Nugent), jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: non-passworded accounts Message-ID: <19970327091443.JB41753@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970326211300.brianc@netrover.com>; from Brian Campbell on Mar 26, 1997 21:13:00 -0500 References: <Mutt.19970326211300.brianc@netrover.com>
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As 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. Ouch! David hasn't tested his new feature enough before merging it into 2.2! Not only that a passwordless account can no longer be used, while trying to debug this using gdb's attach feature, i've almost always been able to segfault it somewhere in badlogin(). Jordan, i'm afraid we need a KNOWNBUGS list... :-( -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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