Passwordless login

[Richard June]

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.

> 2. set various services to require no password to allow user xyz to login.
kdm(gdm replacement) will let you do this from within the control center, gdm 
will let you do this as well. as for ssh,  look at ssh-keygen.

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