[CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

[Michael Schultz]

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:
>> 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.
> 
>