Kay I tried this and it did not work
Anybody else running Redhat 6 that could try this for me?
Thanks I'd appreciate it!
Oh BTW I am running with shadow passwords now and MD5 My Drive crashed so as
long as I was reinstalling I figured I'd give it a go
Thank you
Chris Bennett
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfred [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 8:51 AM
> To: Chris Bennett
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Blank Passwords
>
> Chris Bennett wrote:
> >
> > Hi All Just a quick question
> > I am Running Redhat 6 with standard non MD5 Non Shadow passwords
> > I would like to set it up so that I can have a user without a password
> > In Redhat 5.2 it was easy I could just delete the password in the
> > /etc/passwd file But when I do that in 6 It gives me login failed right
> > after that
> > Thanks for your time
> > Christopher Bennett
>
> On HPUX and on Linux 2.2.5 SuSE 6.1 it works this way:
> As root user execute: passwd username
> and leaf the password empty.
> --
> MfG Alfred. (Wien)
