topic Re: Account setting in Operating System - Linux

Account setting

Kevin_peng — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:51:25 GMT

How to setup "No accounts are allowed to have a null password."

Re: Account setting

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 01:44:36 GMT

check /usr/share/doc/pam-0.XX/txts/pam.txt
(in RHEL 4 there is pam-0.77).
I guess, you should add "nullok" option in appropriate pam configuration.

Re: Account setting

Kevin_peng — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 03:25:36 GMT

I check my ES4.0,but I can't find how to config .

Re: Account setting

Tom Robinson_1 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 04:59:35 GMT

nullok can be configured in the /etc/pam.d directories. Usually on RHEL systems the file to change is system-auth but beware that this file is generated by the system-config-authentication utility and may be overwritten if someone subsequently runs it.

By default on RHEL systems, null password accounts are locked so I'm not sure why you want to change the pam settings.

Re: Account setting

Jaime Bolanos Rojas. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:59:32 GMT

Kevin,

Take a look at this doc, it should help you out, just do a search for null passwords,

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO.html#AEN281

Regards,

Jaime.