Re: How to let a user login locally with a weak password

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> I'd like to setup an account that can use a weak password.
>> To make up for it, the account should only be accessible locally, not
>> over the network.
>> It would be sufficient for it to be accessible only via GDM/XDM (since
>> I don't need remote XDM/GDM logins).

> I used to add an extra line to /etc/pam.d/gdm to allow a list of users
> (using pam_listfile.so) to login before checking their passwords.

That sounds promising.  Could you give me some details of what it looked
like?  But I guess that just allowed them to login without any password
(rather than with a weak password), right?  Still, promising.


        Stefan