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From: marlor@dream.sublink.ORG (Marco Lorenzini)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Nov03.153644.549@dream.sublink.ORG>
Date: 3 Nov 90 14:36:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct25.162158.4398@druid.uucp> <1990Oct27.081021.12021@pegasus.com> <89@comix.UUCP> <199
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In <1990Nov01.183404.285@am.sublink.org> alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli) writes:

>jeffl@comix.UUCP (Jeff Liebermann) writes:
>	...
>>In SCO 3.2.2 with
>>	C2 security (allegedly) turned off (relaxed)
>>	/etc/default/login  includes  PASSREQ=NO
>>the  passwd -d   command correctly deletes the requirement for
>>having a password.  However, as soon as the user (or nuucp)
>>logs in immediatly thereafter, login complains that they don't
>>have a password and demands one.  So much for that idea.  At

>Have you tried the hack I previously suggested, that is to run, as
>root, "passwd -d -x 7000 -n 7000 nuucp"?  It's worked for me
>on all Sysv/386 Unices I have tried it on, but I have not tried SCO.

No, on Sco Unix your hack don't work also with C2 security relaxed.
With Sco any user MUST have own password if want to be able to log
on the system.

Marco.

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