Gimli's password

[fred deakin]

Just a hint. If you decide to grant Gimli's request and allow him to login without a password, it won't work via remote access (via Putty). However, it will work if Gimli is logging into the local host.

Let me know if you are able to make it work so that he doesn't need a password to login remotely.

Fred

[Tim Childers]

I been trying to fine out how you allow gimli to logon without a password. How did you do this?

[Rich Simms]

You need to use vipw to remove the password for Gimli.

There is a way to do this for Putty as well although it will take some fiddling to get it right. SSH supports key based authentication. You create your public and private keys using Puttygen. Put the public key on the remote system and configure your private key locally on Putty.

I haven't done this recently so take a look at: [url]http://www.howtoforge.com/ssh_key_based_logins_putty[/url] or google "putty key based login" for more details.

- Rich

[Rich Simms]

This works as well to remove Gimli's password:

[code]passwd -d gimli[/code]

- Rich

[fred deakin]

I hope we don't have to configure Putty for the purposes of this lab!

[keivn dodd]

You can edit the gimli line in the /etc/passwd file and substitute an x for password hash.

[keivn dodd]

You can also edit /etc/passwd directly and substitute gimli's password hash for an x.