Editing /etc/passwd to disable password not working

[Joaquin Nadal Dura]

On 03/01/2012 10:26 AM, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> I tried to disable the password of an account on my home ubuntu 11.04
> box, by blanking the 2nd field of the corresponding user line in
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file. However, whenever I try to login to
> the user account I am still being asked for the password and just
> pressing 'enter' is not working.
> 
> Is there something else that I should be doing? IIRC, I have tried
> this some time back in probably ubuntu 8.10 (or maybe some lower
> version) and it used to work.
> 

Hello,

Try:
$ sudo passwd --delete username

Best regards,

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