Matthew Flaschen wrote: > andrei raevsky wrote: > >> Jay: >> >> Why should I copy the password hash and not just simply delete the >> password as I did (which obviously did not work - but I wonder why it >> did not)? > > I don't know the format of the password file, but I assume it does not > allow for no password. Also, keep in mind the hash of "" is not "". >
I seem to recall it will allow blank passwords on locked accounts. i havent tried having no password at all. kk > Matthew Flaschen > > -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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