I have just started to use Scientific Linux (7.0) (although I assume this question might be distribution neutral..). The kernel version is 3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64.
Coming back to my question.
I switched to root
account and from there created an new user account test-account
using the command adduser test-account
. It didn't prompt me for a password neither did I use the option to provide password. So I guess it's a "without password" account. I can login into this account from root account - which I suppose I'd be able to without providing password even if the test account had a password. However when I try to login into this(test-account) from a third account - it prompts me for password. And just pressing Enter
doesn't work.
Is it possible to login into this account from a non-root account. Is there a way (without switching to root or using sudo
) ?
adduser
knows the-p
option to set a password, tho its use is not recommended. So as root, dopasswd test-account
and set a password.su test-account
. That switches to thetest-account
without a password prompt (which is what would happen even iftest-account
had a password). However, when I try to switch to test account from anther non-privileged user account, kernel asks me for the password with a prompt, and it doesn't accept void (pressingeneter
)