On 17/12/11 13:30, Chris Green wrote:
What are the requisites for a login to have no password? I thought it was a 'x' in the password field in /etc/passwd and nothing in the password field in /etc/shadow but that seems not to work.
Hmm I would have thought that should have worked...you did a clean unmount of the filesystem after you changed it no ?
If all else fails you could always "borrow" the hash of a known password on another system :D