Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 21:52:37 -0500 From: Mike Karels <mike@karels.net> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Surprise null root password Message-ID: <E29BDD31-BB38-41F8-B1F9-422CBEC7143D@karels.net> In-Reply-To: <ZHFqzf9A90L9NfJb@www.zefox.net> References: <ZHDt21wFlpJfQKEs@www.zefox.net> <ZHFqzf9A90L9NfJb@www.zefox.net>
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On 26 May 2023, at 21:28, bob prohaska wrote: > It turns out all seven hosts in my cluster report > a null password for root in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh > > Is that intentional? Well, it has been that way in FreeBSD since 1993, and in BSD since 1980 (4.0BSD). I guess you would say that it is intentional. The alternative would be to have a well-known password like root, but then it wouldn’t be as obvious that a local password had not been set. Mike > Thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska
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