[clug] banning passwords in passwd

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:09:40PM +1100, Michael James wrote:
> Is there anything I can do to stop Linux passwd command
>  EVER putting a password into /etc/passwd?
> 
> A lot of my users are authenticated of Active Directory
>  and so don't have or need entries in /etc/shadow.
> And it makes the shadow file shorter and more readable
>  if users without passwords, don't have entries.

I've not tried, but if you alter the PAM configuration for passwd to
not include the standard unix auth, does that work?

Have a nice day,
-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to litigate.
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