How to "login/rlogin/su" to user accts with no password defined?

Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com
Sun Nov 11 08:26:00 GMT 2001


On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:39:20AM -0700, Mark Paulus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have this issue/question.  How can I rlogin/su to a user
> account on my WinXP box that doesn't have a password
> defined?  I like to keep passwords disabled for my home 
> machines so the kids don't have to worry about it if they 
> have to reboot.  Should the security processes be
> smart enough to check if a password is required before
> asking for one, or somehow figure out that no password
> is required?

rlogin/telnet should work even without password.  su doesn't
work at all.

Corinna

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