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On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 11:07:14 GMT, postmaster@andor.dropbear.id.au
(Paul Colquhoun) wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 08:31:26 GMT, jbrough@melbpc.org.au <jbrough@melbpc.org.au> wrote:
>|After upgrading from RH5.2 to RH6.0 I can't login any more. Previously
>|I was using no password on root, done by deleting the password info in
>|/etc/passwd (not good security but its a stand alone for playing
>|with). Now after the upgrade, it asks for a password, and won't accept
>|anything I type in.
>|
>|Thanks in advance
>|John 
>
>
>You may have to boot into single user mode ( type 'linux single'
>at the boot prompt ) and set a password there.
>
>The PAM security modules on RH generally treat a null/empty
>password as a locked account. Try going to /etc/pam.d and edit
>the login file. Add the parameter nullok to the authentication
>and authorisation lines.
>
>Did you need to do something to RH5.2 to get the null password
>working on that system?
>
>
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What I did was to get the encrypted password info from a RH5.2 machine
that I use as a SMB server when I boot the RH6 machine as DOS, and
using the boot/rescue disks edit /etc/passwd and insert the info. This
allowed me to login OK.
What is bugging me now is that I can't telnet into the RH6 machine
like I used to. It seems that RH6 may tighten up security or something