On 2025-03-05 09:57:09 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 03:23:17PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Well, I don't know whether a system account may have a password, > > but this would still fail unexpectedly in such a case. > > > > The adduser(8) man page says: > > > > "adduser --system" does not set a password for the new account. > > > > but it seems that passwd(1) can set a password: its man page says > > > > while the superuser may change the password for any account. > > > > If a password is forbidden for a system account, then this should > > be enforced in passwd(1). > > A password ist not forbidden for a system account. Are there any > docs that suggest this prohibition?
I haven't found any, but I was surprised that adduser does not allow one to set a password for system accounts (e.g. with an option like --enabled-password, which would be the reverse of the --disabled-password option). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
