Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:11:13 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes Message-ID: <20091230131112.GA2115@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20091230123341.GC36440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091230123341.GC36440@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. > None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have > passwd by default, and I never touched it, so I expected > logins -p to show toor, but it didn't. > > Just to check I also tried to su toor with root passwd - no access. > > Please can somebody clarify if toor does indeed have > passwd. toor, like many other system accounts, by default has its password entry set to '*' which indicates that password authenictation is disabled for that account. (See the passwd(5) manpage for details.) This means that unless you set a password for toor you cannot login as toor, so the mere presence of that account is not a security problem. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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