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Old 08-21-2007
No Password - - Setuid Only Option in Solaris 10
In Solaris 9, when I built users, there was an option for No Password -- Setuid Only. Now that I'm using Solaris 10, I no longer can find that option.

Is there an equivalent option of No Password --Setuid Only in Solaris 10?

Thanks,
LeonD
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Old 08-24-2007
In the /etc/shadow file you have the encrypted passwords for each user. There are several fields separated by ':' characters. The 1st field is the username the 2nd is the 13 character one way has of the users password.

If you change this 2nd field to anything other than a 13 character string then you will be unable to login to it using a password and will only be able to su to the account from root.

Classically this field would read '*LK*' for locked accounts, but it doesn't really matter what it is, if its now a valid 13 character password hash then you can only su to the account.
 
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