Joey Hess wrote: > I have a problem with the idea that someone could hit enter a few times > by accident and end up with a passwordless system. > > A valid passwordless system is a _very_ rare case.
OTOH, there's probably nothing wrong with turning the "your password is empty" prompt into a "your password is empty, wannt keep it that way [yN]" prompt (note defalut is NO). Feel free to suggest that to the maintainer of passwd. -- see shy jo

