From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 13 03:35:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A6016A404 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87D3313C48D for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:35:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7B62E1CC050; Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:35:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Michael Williams Message-ID: <20070713033552.GA86758@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mail-Followup-To: Michael Williams , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HOW TO: Enabling root on a new server? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:35:52 -0000 On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:06:07PM -0400, Michael Williams wrote: > I recently purchased a co-located server from Cedant and need to enable the > root user. It's running FreeBSD 6.1. Currently there appears to be no root > user enabled on the server. I can't even "su" to root. I've tried using > "pw" to add my user to "wheel" but I receive a warning informing me that I > must be root to even do such a thing. You can see my quandary. Please > advise. FreeBSD, out-of-the-box, definitely includes user "root", and there is no password (unless during the installation you choose to set one). This sounds like a question you should be talking to Cedant/your provider about. What you purchased may not be a real co-located box that's personally dedicated to you -- it may be something shared with other people, and something that Cedant maintains. This is purely speculative on my part, because I know nothing about their services. But this really does sound like something specific to their servers. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |