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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.081021.12021@pegasus.com>
Date: 27 Oct 90 08:10:21 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct25.162158.4398@druid.uucp>
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu
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>I think you need to disable the requirement for all logins.  Not that you
>won't have password protection but any user will now be able to have a
>null password if they want.  If this isn't a problem on your system then
>look at /etc/default/login.  Add (or change) a line that says "PASSREQ=NO"
>and you should have what you want.  

Not true.  If a user is given a password, passwd(1) will not allow him
to replace it with a null password.


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Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com