From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 9 14:31:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA15218 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:31:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts17-line5.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA15213 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:31:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA06193; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:31:06 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 14:31:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Adam Obszynski cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root without password? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970807220059.0068be8c@polbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Adam Obszynski wrote: > i use a vipw for some modifications and i wont to disable root password > on my home fBSD system... i leave root:: and saving changes then > i login on another console and root can not login !!!! Did you blank out the password entirely and leave the rest of the fields? > How disable root config ? You should login as root and use 'passwd' to change root's password. > vipw uses master.passwd ? if how update all shadow database > records after manual editing master.passwd ? vipw will run pwd_mkdb for you. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo