[CentOS] SSH login from user with empty password

[Mike McCarthy]

I question why you want accounts without passwords when logging in via
SSH and public keys does not use a password or even ask for one. Also
anyone logged in can change users with only an su - <username> and not
need a password.

Have you tried setting PASS_MIN_LEN in /etc/login.defs to 0?

Mike

On 10/11/2013 03:27 AM, Michael Schultz wrote:
> Thanks everyone,
>
> secure log tells me exactly what the problem is:
> "User username not allowed because account is locked"
>
> Setting a password for that account unlocks it and ssh works as
> expected. I guess I have to work on my account creation routine.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
> Am 10.10.2013 21:49, schrieb James Hogarth:
>> On 10 Oct 2013 14:45, "Michael Schultz" <m.schultz at srz.de> wrote:
>>> on a CentOS 6.4 machine I'm creating accounts with empty passwords. Each
>>> user's public key is located in <user's home>/.ssh/authorized_keys.
>>>
>>> When trying to ssh into that machine, following error message is
>> displayed:
>>> Permission denied (publickey).
>>>
>> Check /var/log/secure on the server for more details...
>>
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