Unprivileged User's Account Without a Password

[Santosh Kumar]

You may try  passwd -d <UserName> which will delete user password and will
not ask at the time of login.

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Ka kkar <vijay1313 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Devarishi Kumar Mahadeva <
> dk_mahadeva at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > Can we have an unprivileged user's account without any password such that
> > the user can still login and perform tasks in the same way he or she
> would
> > do by entering a valid password.
> >
> > Well, as I am aware of it that when we create a user's account by giving
> > the following command:
> >
> > #useradd <UserName>
> >
> > We don't have to set a password for that account at this state. But if we
> > try to log in using that user name we are prompted to enter a valid
> > password. We can't log in without a password set for that account.
> >
> > So, is there any way to overcome it?
> >
> >
>
> it is not a good idea to login without password but still if some case you
> want to login without password or without being prompted for the password
> remove the :x: from /etc/passwd file.this :x: parameter checks /etc/shadow
> for the users password,when you remove this x it would not check the
> /etc/shadow & you would be able to login without password.
>
>
> Thanks
> kakkar
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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