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Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 15:29:24 +1100
To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Re: su problems - no password needed
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At 14:26 5/11/2001, Edwin Groothuis sent this up the stick:
>On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:46:47PM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> > I'm having an issue with su.  My user is in the wheel group, and when 
> doing
> > su - (ie: su to root, using root's environment) no password is asked
> > for.  this was not the case until I built world recently.  any way to get
> > the password thing back?
>
>If you do "vipw", what do you see then in the second field of the root-user?
>Something like this?
>     root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash
>
>Or is there a string filled in.
>
>Anyway, becoming root and using the passwd command would solve it
>for what I think of it.

Yep, that was it, no password set (alhough I did set one when I installed 4.4)

Thanks,
Rob


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