sshd: it is permit to login with a Empty Password

Iago Rubio iago.rubio at hispalinux.es
Fri Nov 26 09:54:16 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 17:05, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:40:42AM +0100, Iago Rubio wrote:
> > > On a standard installation of FC1 and FC2 (and FC3?) is permit to login
> > > with a user with a empty password ... is this correct?
> > Put a non working shell as default for this user.
> > [root at igloo root]# useradd -s /sbin/nologin nopasswd
> 
> That'll make it kind of hard for the user to get any work done, won't it?

You've got a big bunch of users in your system with no login shells, and
they get their work done.

Check your /etc/passwd.

-- 
Iago Rubio




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