How do I make it so that some accounts don't require a password.

[ferulebezel]

For reasons too boring to explain here I have several users who I'd like to set their accounts no not require passwords to log in. In earlier versions of ubuntu it was trivial, just a checkbox. Now that checkbox is missing.

How do I do it?

[cariboo]

If you are using Oneiric (11.10), go to System Settings->User Accounts, to set auto login.

[sisco311]

For reasons too boring to explain here I have several users who I'd like to set their accounts no not require passwords to log in. In earlier versions of ubuntu it was trivial, just a checkbox. Now that checkbox is missing.

How do I do it?

If memory serves, the option is still there in users-admin (from gnome-system-tools) . But if you can't do it via users-admin, then all you have to do is to add the user(s) to the nopasswdlogin group:

sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME nopasswdlogin

Where USERNAME is the login name of the user.

[HermanAB]

Hmm, if you don't want to bother people with logging in, how about giving them a USB memory stick as a login key token?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=17571

[ferulebezel]

If you are using Oneiric (11.10), go to System Settings->User Accounts, to set auto login.

That's not what I'm asking. I don't want to log in to a certain account by default. I want some accounts to nor require a password.

[ferulebezel]

If memory serves, the option is still there in users-admin (from gnome-system-tools)

Thanks, that worked.

[fdrake]

to apply sisco311's suggestion of the command "sudo gpasswd -a USERNAME nopasswdlogin" you need to add this line to your pam conf (/etc/pam.conf) "gdm auth sufficient pam_succeed_if.so USERNAME ingroup nopasswdlogin"

also you can bypass the password by deleting the second entry (password hash) of the users filed.

or in a more elegant way with aysiu's method :http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=513820