[CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Fri Oct 11 08:14:08 UTC 2013
On 10/11/2013 12:27 AM, Michael Schultz wrote:
> Setting a password for that account unlocks it and ssh works as
> expected. I guess I have to work on my account creation routine.
you might look into mkpasswd, its probably excessively complicated, but
it can set a users password
# mkpasswd -l 20 xyzzy
zhRovbjh24hcqrg?xqoF
sets a gnarly 20 character password for the xyzzy user. easy to script.
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john r pierce 37N 122W
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