Lars Eighner wrote:
On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Matthew Seaman wrote:
If there's nothing in the second field, then you have a problem, as that means the account has a NULL password (ie. just hit return when prompted for a password --
I've been wrong before, but I think you do not get a password prompt at all,at least not on login. You enter the login: name and you are off to motd and a command prompt.
It depends on what application you're using to authenticate yourself.
Login on the console doesn't ask for a password. sshd(8) does (IIRC).
I can't remember what su(1) does. ftpd(8) always asks for a password.
xdm(1) and that ilk have fields for username and password in one panel,
and generally you just ignore the password field. That's for access to
a non-root account: as I said, root or other super-user accounts such as
toor may not permit root login at all, or may not permit login without a
password.
Cheers,
Matthew
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