Cannot authenticate without a password

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Published on 2012-06-13T04:22:42Z Indexed on 2012/06/13 4:47 UTC
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This question has been asked hundreds of times before, but I did not see any relevant answer so I will repost. Sorry if there is any helpful answer, please don't vote down but please link to the question(s) with such answers.

The problem can be reproduced as follows:

  1. When I remove the password of an administrator account, "Log In without Password", I cannot use that account to authenticate.
  2. When I do something that requires authentication, I cannot use an admin without a password to authenticate. If I leave the password box blank without a password while choosing a non-password admin, authentication fails (in terminal or in GUI).

How to fix this problem?

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