From: Paul Reilly (pareilly@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jul 08 2002 - 12:24:15 EDT
Thanks to Dr. Tom who responded really quickly to my query.
Thanks to John Ferlan who pointed out the following solution.
Original Question:
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>Is there a way to make 5.1A not prompt for a password when using null
>passwords? We have an old 4.0 system using BASE security where people log
>in to a custom application just by entering a username. After the username
>prompt, the application starts. ie- there is no password prompt. In the
>new 5.1A system (using ENCHANCED) the password prompt always comes up, and
>you have to hit return (null password) to complete the login.
Solution
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Read the comments in /usr/include/prot.h (grep for NULL_PSW)...
Then modify the "d_null_psw_prompt" value in the
/etc/auth/system/default file
Some things never made the man pages due to lack of time when the
functionality was added...
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Adding a d_null_psw_prompt#1 to the defaults database fixed the problem!
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