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From: alex@am.sublink.org (Alex Martelli)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: No Passwd for nuucp
Message-ID: <1990Nov01.183404.285@am.sublink.org>
Date: 1 Nov 90 18:34:04 GMT
References: <1990Oct22.211639.14436@mccc.uucp> <1990Oct25.162158.4398@druid.uucp> <1990Oct27.081021.12021@pegasus.com> <89@comix.UUCP>
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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.
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