passwd and group entries

Dave Woyciesjes woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 2 16:42:55 UTC 2010


Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 16:52 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 08/31/2010 04:23 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>> Recently I had occasion to look at the passwd and group directories. I
>>> noticed an entry in each referring to nopasswdlogin. Does anyone know
>>> what this is for?  
>>>
>>>
>> I'm sure you *must* have googled this before posting...
>>
>> http://library.gnome.org/admin/gdm/2.27/gdm.html#PAM
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/gdm/+bug/393854
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PasswordlessGuestAccount
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/en/man5/passwd.5.html
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/pl/man1/gpasswd.1.html
>> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=ubuntu+%2Bnopasswdlogin&btnG=Search>
> 
> <the DeepThough voice of Google> "Aren't you my friend?" 
> Ric
> 

huh? what??

Deja vu going on here....

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