I am looking to see if a system accepts null passwds, I know how to do
this in a standard linux environment, but the kicker is users are
authenticating through a Windows platform and within the pam.d file
under system-auth is see /$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok* Does null
have to be allowed in order for proper authentication through Windows
into Linux????
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
SD
In article <1159399410.925285.186810@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, SD wrote:
>I am looking to see if a system accepts null passwds, I know how to do
>this in a standard linux environment, but the kicker is users are
>authenticating through a Windows platform and within the pam.d file
>under system-auth is see /$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok* Does null
>have to be allowed in order for proper authentication through Windows
>into Linux????
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
"Hi, I'm looking to hang myself, but I can't quite work out how to
tie the knots. Can somebody help me?"
Null passwords are a horrible, horrible idea that you WILL regret.
Why in the name of Sam Hill do you want to DO this?
--
Christopher Mattern
"Which one you figure tracked us?"
"The ugly one, sir."
"...Could you be more specific?"
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.security.misc, in article
<12hnoq0l5llim93@corp.supernews.com>, Chris Mattern wrote:
>In article <1159399410.925285.186810@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, SD wrote:
>
>>I am looking to see if a system accepts null passwds, I know how to do
>>this in a standard linux environment, but the kicker is users are
>>authenticating through a Windows platform and within the pam.d file
>>under system-auth is see /$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok* Does null
>>have to be allowed in order for proper authentication through Windows
>>into Linux????
Don't know, because I don't have any windoze boxes - but I REALLY doubt it.
"likeauth nullok" is _probably_ a bad idea. See the PAM documentation.
>"Hi, I'm looking to hang myself, but I can't quite work out how to
>tie the knots. Can somebody help me?"
>
>Null passwords are a horrible, horrible idea that you WILL regret.
>Why in the name of Sam Hill do you want to DO this?
I'm not sure he does - he _might_ be trying to figure out if there are
accounts with null passwords so that they can be disabled.
Old guy
Chris Mattern wrote:
> In article <1159399410.925285.186810@d34g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>, SD wrote:
> >I am looking to see if a system accepts null passwds, I know how to do
> >this in a standard linux environment, but the kicker is users are
> >authenticating through a Windows platform and within the pam.d file
> >under system-auth is see /$ISA/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok* Does null
> >have to be allowed in order for proper authentication through Windows
> >into Linux????
> >
> >Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
> >
> "Hi, I'm looking to hang myself, but I can't quite work out how to
> tie the knots. Can somebody help me?"
>
> Null passwords are a horrible, horrible idea that you WILL regret.
> Why in the name of Sam Hill do you want to DO this?
>
> --
> Christopher Mattern
>
> "Which one you figure tracked us?"
> "The ugly one, sir."
> "...Could you be more specific?"
Mr. Mattern has it occured to you that I am not looking to accept null
passwords but I am in fact looking to see if a client of mine is?????
I am an auditor, whose Linux skills are obviously a little rusty...
and I'd like some help determining if the above mentioned string
indicates that for systems using a Windows platform to authenticate to
the network which houses a Linux server means that Linux server also
accepts null passwords????