From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 18:29:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB0F16A41F for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:29:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9D4E13C45D for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cptsalek@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so60976nfb for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:29:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uuOw+JHLg9ZAYpQQSFoMsFGr+8idRnJqb+fEhB2g0+kJ1TkkoIYtEYoatV4OuARPTH8YDdyqU8USdogbwsJuEyX6KTFh3ls0t0iQZcx+2zetgM9hTq2HJbH/OS0pJjxyzU+TelD91pfqVjmJ6viqVgz+defJbvoKX96KlDYEm84= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tjcxNEzK5Kynaup6Yb67MqSGFIXWptvucufvzFJCr+T9u4Yzy95humrI7kAi2Y8NKUItbOD7SD0zkiCdyn6acRaDKjUzp3lgEPb6AG8G7qRtQcXrB7ue80wLjUAJwELYkpdAje+nN4Mb8Re+uBdOi6yRDnr+zSYS7aPeM1ps/GM= Received: by 10.82.151.14 with SMTP id y14mr9767147bud.1182191393671; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.171.9 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:29:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <14989d6e0706181129q4617ab7ekb39d0489ee7dd4fd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:29:53 +0000 From: "Christian Walther" To: "Bill Moran" In-Reply-To: <20070618133205.916c1a91.wmoran@potentialtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np> <20070618133205.916c1a91.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 18:29:55 -0000 On 18/06/07, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Tek Bahadur Limbu : > > > Prakash Poudyal wrote: [...] > > After reboot, I again have to manually set the root password and create > > a user account once again. All is fine and well after that. > > > > I have really found FreeBSD-6.2 stable and steady for production use > > however. > > You've got something bizarre going on with your setup. I've never seen > the behaviour you describe. > > Are you sure that when you set the password, it actually works? It's > difficult for me to even imagine what kind of problem would cause what > you describe without the system also being completely unstable as well. > [...] Maybe the OP does what he describes, but chooses the wrong button to continue the installation, so that these settings are discarded by sysinstall. I'm not sure if the stage the root password is set is some point of confusion, as described in sysinstall related discussions on this list.