In Gnome you can tell it to allow users not to place passwords, but I also found the following thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=123116
I hope it helps you. Ido On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I occasionally need to setup a throw-away "games" user for someone to > play a bit with my laptop. Having a password is an annoyance in this > case. > > So I thought I'll use PAM to disregard the password and accept the > authentication anyway: > > http://tzafrir.org.il/~tzafrir/add_gdmonly_user > > This uses pam_listfile.so for that purpose. One remaining issue is that > GDM will prompt me for the password anyway (in the past it didn't if it > wasn't needed) > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | [email protected] | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's > [email protected] | | best > ICQ# 16849754 | | friend > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
