How to delete or remove user password in Linux?
Some times you require to set passwordless logins to a user for auto logins, shell scripting so that you no need to provide any password. This can be achieved by using passwd command with -d option which deletes already assigned password.
passwd -d username
Example:
passwd -d temp
Removing password for user temp.
passwd: Success
Once you are done with this change the password field in /etc/shadow field is changed to empty so that without password you can login from any machine to the local machine.
Update: Some users pointed out that this works only for local logins, but for remote logins this will not work.
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