Thus said Clint Pachl on Mon, 01 Sep 2014 05:24:02 -0700: > FYI: "$@" equals "-p -- USER" where USER is the username entered at > the login prompt. I never would have guessed that the -p option was > included.
Yes, it does allow any USER to login without a password by just typing the username at the prompt followed by Enter---this does not exclude root, however, I don't think it would be hard to modify the script to exclude root (or any other user), or force the username, etc... > I just wanted to point out that this still requires someone to enter a > valid username to get a login session. Is it possible to bypass even > this step and just get a user login session (i.e., auto-login)? I never did figure out how to bypass this step. Andy -- TAI64 timestamp: 400000005404ad11
