Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:56:06 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> 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: <20091230125606.GA53838@ei.bzerk.org> 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 typed: > 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:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: (from master.passwd) As you can see, the password is not empty; it's a '*'. Nothing hashes to *. Ruben
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