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I created a user called 'pcguest' (for samba), and when prompted for a password, I just hit enter. Now, I tried to login as that user using 'su - pcguest', and when prompted for the password, I just hit enter, and I get the incorrect password message. Anyone know how (or if) I can log in with this user?
if you dont want the user to have a password you need to edit the users entry in /etc/passwd, as root edit /etc/passwd, find the row with his name in, it should look something like this
kev82:x:100:100::/home/kev82:/bin/bash
you are interested in the second field, it might not say x, depends if you have shadow passwords enabled or not, but if this field is empty you will not be prompted for a password for this user, so change it to
kev82::100:100::/home/kev82:/bin/bash
obviously the names and numbers will be different on your system
you can find out all about this file by typing 'man 5 passwd' at a command prompt.
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