Re: Linux Help

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.misc, in article
<12hnoq0l5llim93@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris Mattern wrote:

In article <1159399410.925285.186810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, SD wrote:

I am looking to see if a system accepts null passwds, I know how to do
this in a standard linux environment, but the kicker is users are
authenticating through a Windows platform and within the pam.d file
under system-auth is see /$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok* Does null
have to be allowed in order for proper authentication through Windows
into Linux????

Don't know, because I don't have any windoze boxes - but I REALLY doubt it.
"likeauth nullok" is _probably_ a bad idea. See the PAM documentation.

"Hi, I'm looking to hang myself, but I can't quite work out how to
tie the knots. Can somebody help me?"

Null passwords are a horrible, horrible idea that you WILL regret.
Why in the name of Sam Hill do you want to DO this?

I'm not sure he does - he _might_ be trying to figure out if there are
accounts with null passwords so that they can be disabled.

Old guy
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