Re: [Gumstix-users] passwd -d

[Craig H. <cr...@gu...>]

"disabled" with passwd -d means "don't allow password to be used" not =20=

"allow no password to be used".  What you just did is lock out root's =20=

ability to log in.  What you probably wanted to do was to just do =20
"passwd" and then hit enter twice to use a blank password.

C

On May 5, 2006, at 10:56 AM, David Scanlan wrote:

> Hi I tried disabling the root password for my gumstix by doing =20
> =93passwd =96d=94 to save some time and typing while developing on it =
but =20
> this seems to have locked me out! Any idea why?  It=92s not too much =20=

> of an effort to flash it if I have to I just would like to know why =20=

> this didn=92t work, cheers
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> Dave
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