Blank password in createuser

[hetjan]

I’m trying to create a user in my build train with a blank password. So far I’ve tried

password=""

and

password=''

and many variations on

./shadowHash "">password_hash 

All variations of running ./shadowHash to get the desired result have resulted in a password_hash file containing “Invalid password”. Reading the shadowHash script I found these lines:

if (empty($password)) {
        die("Invalid password");

so I’m guessing shadowHash isn’t the way to go. Is there another way to get the desired result?

[Rusty Myers]

Did you try?

password=

Rusty

[hetjan]

Yes, of course.

[Patrick Fergus]

Try the following as a postflight in a payload-free pkg in your CustomPKGs:

sudo "$3"/usr/bin/dscl -f "$3"/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default localonly -passwd /Local/Target/Users/<username> ''

I tried a slightly easier version of this:

sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -passwd /Users/<username> ''

and it gave me a one-click login (if the Login Window shows a list of users), which I’m guessing may be one of your goals.

Note that I haven’t tried the first command, it’s just a collection of pieces of how to address dslocal via dscl on a non-startup disk. I think it’s syntactically correct, but I could be wrong and I don’t have the time to test it right now.

– Patrick

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