This isn't a partcularly good solution but I installed usercfg from a
5.1 cd onto my 5.3 installation so that i could create users with no
password.
For some reason usercfg seems to have been replaced by userconf in
later releases (I hope i'm remembering those names correctly)
--- Linux Happy User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone out there.
>
> I recently upgraded a RedHat 5.2 to Mandrake 6.0 and
> i've got two
> problems :
> - the machine is shared by lots of people who don't
> care about sharing
> the same unprivileged environnment, all they want to
> do is enable the
> PPP link to Internet and launch Netscape, and also
> be able to get files
> they downloaded from the 'net via FTP
>
> So i had an 'everybody' account no password, and
> everything worked fine.
> Now, this account does not work anyome without a
> password, so i had to
> 'chpasswd' this user providing a 'CR' password', but
> people now have to
> hit 'Return' to login, which is not the initial
> behaviour. Anyone knows
> how to a have a blank password so that we get back :
> Linux login : everybody (CR)
> Hello Everybody.
> Everybody $
> instead of the actual
> Linux login : everybody (CR)
> PASSWORD : (CR)
> Hello everybody.
> Everybody $
>
> Also, when people now use the ftp service, whatever
> user they log as,
> when they type in the password, the ftp-daemon gets
> 'password' (as seen
> from the /var/log/messages file) and then
> disconnects true users since
> the password doesn't match... Anyone knowing why ?
>
> Thanks
> Didier
>
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