Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 17:18:11 +1100 From: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: su problems - no password needed Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105171615.01eba8e0@pop.ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011105005153.A49306@keyslapper.org> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105152848.020c7a30@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011105152848.020c7a30@pop.ozemail.com.au>
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At 16:51 5/11/2001, you muttered something like:
>On 11/05/01 03:29 PM, Rob B sat at the `puter and typed:
> > 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
>
>Then if I could just toss my $0.02 in here, you might want to verify
>that all the user accounts are still configured properly - passwords,
>etc..
There is only one regular user on the box apart from root, and that's fine
.... what is the user toor?
From vipw:
toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:
Is this neccessary?
Rob
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