Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:40:20 -0500 From: brianc@netrover.com (Brian Campbell) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No password account on 2.2.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <Mutt.19970328154020.brianc@netrover.com> In-Reply-To: <97Mar28.104607pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Mar 28, 1997 10:46:01 -0800 References: <199703271002.TAA29041@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> <97Mar28.104607pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Bill Fenner writes: > hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) wrote: > >If 2.2.1-RELEASE does not permit no-password account > > But it does. The box that I installed last week still doesn't have a root > password. Just hit "enter" at the password prompt. Perhaps hosokawa and myself are the only two experiencing the problem, but two points. Firstly, I don't think 2.2.1-RELEASE was out last week, and secondly by "no-password account" I meant accounts for which you won't even be prompted for a password. The third point, <g>, is that after installing bin.*, the root account doesn't require a password (i.e. the passwd field is empty, as opposed to an encrypted version of a newline), and whatever is broken with my 2.2.1R won't let anyone with such a passwd entry login. I had to boot -s.
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