Guest Account No Password

[Jim Thrash]

What the quickest way to determine if a guest account has no password?

[Shahul]

Hi

It depends, What is the prupous of that account. If it is for ftp, better way is setup and anonymous ftp.

If guest need shell prompt then U will have to use user add command. First determin the uid and gid for guest, then

#useradd -u -g -m -k /etc/skel -d /home/guest -s /bin/sh guest

#passwd guest

Enter a nil passwd

Best of luck
Shahul

[Patrick Wallek]

Try to log in and when prompted for the password just hit return. If you get logged in, there's no password.

You could also check /etc/passwd and if the 2nd field is empty, then there's no passwd.

userid::123:12::/home/dir/:/usr/bin/sh

The above entry has no passwd assigned.

[PIYUSH D. PATEL]

Hi,

Just login and find out.....or check in the /etc/passwd file if the field after username guest is blank

guest::uid:gid:

Piyush

[Shahul]

Hi

Oh..Sorry. I misunderstood ur question.

As others pointed, U can find out in /etc/passwd file


Best of luck
Shahul

[Arockia Jegan]

Here's the command to find out the user accounts with no passwd,

#logins -p

Will list the users who don't have the passwd