![]() ![]() In recent years I have been using Ubuntu for the servers and I have not been able to eliminate the requirement for a password. The Internet access is only with password protected SSH on a non-standard high port. ![]() However, the users who log in with just their user name get sent, by means of a login script, into the application program and get logged out automatically when they quit the application. The Linux server is located at the same premises and is not locked away - so anyone with malicious intent could have full access to the system. This allowed easy operation of the workstations. And simply by deleting the 'X' in /etc/passwd for the user, the user could log in with a user name only. Back in the days of Redhat 9 I set up networks using dumb terminals that used telnet to log in to the server.
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