On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 20:52, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > I stupidly gave a client a tarball of one > of my filesystems so he could extract it > onto his NFS server and serve it via NFS as > the root filesystem of a machine he wants to > boot disklessly. Unfortunately, I left all the > authentication files such that he needs to know > my local root passwd to use that filesystem, > something I obviously want to avoid. > > I'm therefore trying to figure out how to coach > him through the process of making the correct > changes (on his NFS server) such that root > (on his NFS client machine) will have either > no password or at least a different password. > In the old days I'd have simply advised him > to clear the password field in .../etc/passwd > but it's apparently rather more involved now. > > Advice? The alternative is for me to change it > on my local machine and ship him all 100Mb of > filesystem all over again, something I'd really > rather not have to do. > > The entry for root in .../etc/passwd is > > root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > Just take out the "x" such that it's:
root::0:0root:/root/bin/bash This will make it so there is NO password (hit return at the password prompt.) The "x" means that there is some form of shadow password present, and that the system should use the configured scheme to obtain it. He can then set the password locally on his machine, which will create a password in whatever scheme is configured. Rich Cloutier President, C*O System Support Services www.sysupport.com ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
