I think that you can use a standard passwd command with specificaly given passwd/shadow files
But passwd can also be edited by hand, you just need to add a new entry and a not used uid, and the shadow file can also easily edited by hand, but you will need to he sure that the password hash you add is correct. There is a way to have no password but I'll remember what to put in the Shadow file, maybe an empty entry for the password, I'm not sure, I'll take a look when I can, but I'm sure plenty of people would know here Good luck, Manoël > Le 30 janv. 2016 à 17:24, Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> a écrit : > >> On 01/30/16 23:34, Godzil wrote: >> So you can log from SSH or telnet but not the console? >> >> If not, I would check all the profile and bashrc files to be sure there is >> nothing wrong there. >> >> If you can log from outside, could you have forbidden root to log from tty0? >> You should try adding another user connecting from outside, them log into >> that user on the local screen, if it works that mean something prevent root >> to log from the main terminal.. >> >> I hope that could help, >> Manoël > > Manoel, > No access from ssh. I had to physically remove the disk from the > machine, place it in another, fiddle the shadow file, then replace it in > the ARM machine. > > Do you know of any doco that explains how to add a user manually. By > manually I mean that I will have to remove the disk, place it in another > machine and then manually edit the appropriate files to add a new user. > I have no idea as to what I need to fiddle. > > Andrew >
