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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.150107.8711@mccc.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 90 15:01:07 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct25.155651.16447@eci386.uucp> <1990Oct26.140812.14028@cbnewsc.att.com>
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In article <1990Oct26.140812.14028@cbnewsc.att.com> dcon@cbnewsc.att.com (david.r.connet) writes:
=In article <1990Oct25.155651.16447@eci386.uucp>, woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) writes:
=> In article <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=> > I'd like to have nuucp with no passwd for anonymous uucp possibilities
=> > but my SV/386 R3.2.2 insists on asking nuucp to choose a password!  How
=> > can I convince UNIX that nuucp doesn't need a password?
=> 
	<Greg Woods' posting omitted>
	
Greg, I never did see the original of that posting, but the problem lies
in the Xenix-compatibility of SV/386 R3.2.2.

=
=Actually, the easiest way is to use the 'passwd' command.
=The '-d' option says no passwd.  Hence:
=	passwd -d nuucp
=(you just have to turn off aging now, which I'm not sure how.
=I just use the -x and -n options to set it forward a bit.)

	And of course you've edited the /etc/defaults/login file to
	remove the PASSREQ=YES line?
	
Pete
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