On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> > I've modified the master.passwd emptying the password field and 
> > configured sshd properly, but seems that all the time asks for password.
> 
> Have a look at /etc/ssh/sshd_config and the sshd_config(5) manual page 
> for "PermitEmptyPasswords".

I looked at your email again. You said "configured sshd properly" but 
didn't mention what you did.

sshd never looks at the master.passwd directly. It uses getpwent(3) 
functions which use /etc/spwd.db or /etc/pwd.db hashes instead.
So if you edit the master.passwd directly, your changes may not be 
reflected in the real files.

See vipw and pwd_mkdb man pages for more details.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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