On 4/18/05, Richard June <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 19:56, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > Hi, I'd like to set up an account which allows a user to login without > > requiring a password (remote and/or local). > > > > I have the suspicious feeling this can be accomplished in two ways > > (unfortunately I have yet to figure out how to do so using man-pages > > and site:terrasoftsolutions.com): > > > > 1. set the user to have no password (I have yet to convince passwd to do so > You are right, that is possible, it's a *VERY* bad idea to do (which is why > passwd won't allow it). It's simple enough to do, that if you have to ask how > to do it, you probably should reconsider doing it.
Well, I'm asking, aren't I? I don't mind if it's a bad idea -- I'm trying to learn! The account is not in the sudoers list (I wish YDL would use sudo out the box instead of su<grumble>... which reminds me, I shoudl disable root someday) and there aren't any private files there so it doesn't matter. I can do it in Ubuntu but the pam configuration file in YDL is different :-(. Eric. _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
