No passwd for ONE account (was: No Passwd for nuucp)

Fleming Kraglund fk at kos.rci.dk
Fri Nov 2 02:34:55 AEST 1990


pjh at mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg) writes:

>I'd like to have nuucp with no passwd for anonymous uucp possibilities
>but my SV/386 R3.2.2 insists on asking nuucp to choose a password!  How
>can I convince UNIX that nuucp doesn't need a password?

If you wan't to disable the password requered for just one account, you should
change /etc/shadow so that the min field has a larger value than the max field.

do: passwd -n 2 -x 1 nuucp

and your problems should go away

-- 
Flemming Kraglund             fk at rci.dk                  This is my OWN opinion



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