From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 26 13:22:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from proxy.centtech.com (moat.centtech.com [206.196.95.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A63C637B434 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:22:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sprint.centtech.com (sprint.centtech.com [10.177.173.31]) by proxy.centtech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1QLM1K07282; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:22:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from centtech.com (proton [10.177.173.77]) by sprint.centtech.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA05871; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:22:01 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3C7BFBFF.6398655F@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:19:59 -0600 From: Eric Anderson Reply-To: anderson@centtech.com Organization: Centaur Technology X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bart Matthaei Cc: Miguel Mendez , security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login problem References: <20020226220434.E62131@heresy.dreamflow.nl> <20020226221228.A10897@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020226221512.F62131@heresy.dreamflow.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, "technically" it HAS a password, it is just not possible to encrypt a password and have it end up "*". If it was, that would be REALLY scary. :) But, I'm no stickler, I knew what you meant either way. Eric Bart Matthaei wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 10:12:28PM +0100, Miguel Mendez wrote: > > Hello? password-less as in 'please hack me?' > > > > No, it's actually *disabled*. Check you /etc/master.passwd > > > > toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root: > > Thats what I meant. > > "It hasn't got a password" isn't "It has an empty password". > > But sorry if it came out wrong. > > Anyway, "It hasn't got a password" , so you can't log in with it. > > Regards, > > Bart > > -- > Bart Matthaei bart@dreamflow.nl > > Kiss me twice. I'm schizophrenic. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology If at first you don't succeed, sky diving is probably not for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message