Hi, I've just finished building LFS 6.0 and have added an "ordinary" user and the default profile.
Just as I did for LFS 5.0, I then wanted to edit login.defs so that the ordinary user can log in without a password. I am the only user of my PC so it seems to me that entering the password is just a waste of time. And I don't use shadow or PAM. However, the login.defs file installed with LFS 6.0 no longer has the (commented-out) NO_PASSWORD_CONSOLE line. And when I add it anyway, I ger an error message at log in: parameter not defined. Is this a bug or a feature? Can I patch login to let me log in without a password as ordinary user? When I wanted to build LFS 6.0, I installed Ubuntu as the host system since none of my other Linux builds had kernel 2.6. And, with Ubuntu, I have a user password and I haven't tried to modify the login.defs file (I have no idea what this might do in a Debian-like system). But in Ubuntu I can say "sudo su" and I become root without entering either my user password or the root password! I think that if I understood this I would understand Linux security better. Paul -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
