Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:26:21 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su problems - no password needed Message-ID: <20011105142621.R35710@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:46:47PM %2B1100 References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au>
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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.
Edwin
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