Set empty password for a specific user and user can login without password
Issue
- Have a nullok entry in /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth file:
$ more /etc/pam.d/system-auth |grep nullok
auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so user <username>
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok
- If an enabled account on the system is not password protected, then the users can login with no password. How do fix this issue?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- PAM
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