Unprivileged User's Account Without a Password

Abdelkader Yousfi yousfia at gmail.com
Wed May 27 08:13:42 UTC 2009


no way to get access without prompting for password execpt to use ssh-key
generation that give you the ability to access without asking password at
all.

On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:55 PM, 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?
>
> With regards,
>
> Devarishi Kumar Mahadeva
> System Analyst (Data Center Operations)
> HCL Comnet, Noida (India).
> Mobile No.: +91 - 9999675198
>
>
>
>
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Best Regards,
Abdelkader



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