On Monday 18 April 2005 22:20, Eric Dunbar wrote: > > > > 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 re-read the man page for passwd and noticed the -d flag. > Unfortunately this doesn't seem to have any practical effect. Samba, > AppleTalk and ssh all still require the old password? Now I'll see if > WebMin will do it (of course, by doing it the WebMin way I won't > actually know how to do it myself ;) See, there you go. Samba and Appletalk probably maintain their own password database, for ssh, use ssh-keygen. "yum install sudo" will install sudo. -- Public Key available Here: http://www.bravegnuworld.com/~rjune/pubkey.asc
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