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written by Ivan Alenko
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posted in category Systems Software / GNU Linux
posted at 18. Jun '23

User Login Settings - /etc/login.defs

The settings for login of a user are in /etc/login.defs:

 shadow (1:4.11.1+dfsg1-0exp1) experimental; urgency=medium

  Login now prevents an empty password field to be interpreted as
  "no authentication required" for UID 0 (root account).
  The historical default of letting all users with empty password field
  in without authentication can be restored in /etc/login.defs setting
  PREVENT_NO_AUTH to "no".

 -- Balint Reczey   Sun, 07 Nov 2021 21:51:46 +0100

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