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Note that nullok should not be used by processes that can't access the

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password database.

PR:		bin/126650, misc/140514
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav 2009-11-13 11:19:26 +00:00
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@ -105,6 +105,17 @@ sufficient.
If the password database has no password for the entity being
authenticated, then this option will forgo password prompting, and
silently allow authentication to succeed.
.Pp
.Sy NOTE:
If
.Nm
is invoked by a process that does not have the privileges required to
access the password database (in most cases, this means root
privileges), the
.Cm nullok
option may cause
.Nm
to allow any user to log in with any password.
.It Cm local_pass
Use only the local password database, even if NIS is in use.
This will cause an authentication failure if the system is configured