Re: security - preferred way to make check_access_file happy?

On 2019-02-25 11:14, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2019/02/25 09:13, Adam Thompson wrote:
>> > Use vipw to put 13 * in the password field
>> >
>> > From passwd(5)
>> > [...]
>> > authentication, conventionally have 13 asterisks in the password field.
>>
>> Thank you! Now that I know what I'm looking for, I can see the
>> relevant
>> code in security(8), too.
>>
>> I wonder if there's a way for ports to do that for me while calling
>> useradd?
>> Another rabbit hole to go down.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> -Adam
>>
>
> It normally does already. Do you have an unusual "password" line in
> /etc/usermgmt.conf?

Nope.
Ugh, although I said ports does this often in my experience, the only
system/port I have right now where it's doing it is the RANCID package
on that dedicated VM. I have two other VMs where I have manually
created single-purpose userids without passwords that also complain (one
for RT [not from ports], one for webhosting).
So it could just be that package; at least I can't demonstrate any
others right now.
-Adam