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From: fk@kos.rci.dk (Fleming Kraglund)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: No passwd for ONE account (was: No Passwd for nuucp)
Message-ID: <1077@kos.rci.dk>
Date: 1 Nov 90 15:34:55 GMT
References: <1990Oct27.203150.13610@jpradley.uucp>
Organization: RC International, Copenhagen, Denmark
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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?

If you wan't to disable the password requered for just one account, you should
change /etc/shadow so that the min field has a larger value than the max field.

do: passwd -n 2 -x 1 nuucp

and your problems should go away

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Flemming Kraglund             fk@rci.dk                  This is my OWN opinion