Re: [CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

You are right, that would do the trick when writing a script. But what I'm actually trying to accomplish is creating user accounts with the configuration manager "salt".

In a blog post someone explained how to create users with it and he didn't set a password, so I gave it chance and came across the ssh problem.

Am 11.10.2013 10:14, schrieb John R Pierce:

On 10/11/2013 12:27 AM, Michael Schultz wrote:

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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.