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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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