Subject: Re: account without a password

From: [email-masked] (Joel Tornatore)
Date: 2 Sep 1993 00:18:19 GMT

>does anyone know how to install an account without a pasword-prompting
>under solaris 2.2 ?
>erasing the password-field in /etc/passwd or shadowfile is not enough.

If you are trying to make an account that never needs a password, you need
to comment out this line in /etc/default/login:
PASSREQ=YES

Setting it to NO does not work. You need to comment it out with a # as the
first character.

joel