Passwordless login

[Richard June]

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.
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