pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) (10/25/90)
passwd -d <name> is supposed (a) to remove the password for <name> and also (b) to prevent the system for prompting for one. It does (a) but not (b). Is there a fix??? Thanks, Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math UUCP:...!princeton!mccc!pjh 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu Trenton Computer Festival -- 4/20-21/91
les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) (10/27/90)
In article <1990Oct24.204747.22088@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes: >passwd -d <name> is supposed (a) to remove the password for <name> and >also (b) to prevent the system for prompting for one. It does (a) but >not (b). See login(1). Look at /etc/default/login and note the PASSREQ=YES entry. Be sure you turn off password aging for the uucp accounts, though - the FACE setup always turns it on. Now, if this relates to your anon uucp setup keep in mind that you don't have to omit the password - you can just make it public instead. Also, you should probably use a different login name for the anon setup than any known machines are using. This lets you set up different access permissions since the Permissions file entries are chosen based on LOGNAME on inbound calls. I like different logins for each known host as well, but mostly so a simple "who" lets me see what machine is connected. Les Mikesell les@chinet.chi.il.us