[plug] No passwd for user

[I am the LinuxAlien]

I used the passwd -d username command like someone said and it does fine, 
enter the usernaem and it doesn't ask for a password. Thats just what i needed.
Tim
At 02:01 AM 04/08/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>That doesn't work does it? /etc/shadow stores te crypt (or MD5) version 
>>of the password. And a blank entry wont be the crypt version of ''.
>
>My bad. You need to leave the password entry in /etc/passwd blank even if 
>you're using shadow passwords, and PAM handles that as a special case as 
>far as I can tell - somewhat like "x" for "is in /etc/shadow". Maybe you 
>have to blank the /etc/shadow entry too - anyway I delete both for the 
>sake of neatness and it works perfectly on all my systems.

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