Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 21:54:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@inwind.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [none] Message-ID: <14839.40180.36504.160277@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <87486119@toto.iv>
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Salvo Bartolotta writes:
> > Actually, Amnesiac Mode refers to a system which has got no root
> > password (or one shorter than six chars). To turn it off:
> > su to/login as root (should be pretty easy now ;-)
> Whatever the exact cause may be (I'll try a suitable "grep -r" sooner
> or later), the moral seems to be: in a well-configured system there is
> no room for "Amnesiac" :-)
It refers to a system that has no hostname. Quoting
/usr/src/libexec/getty/main.c:
gethostname(hostname, sizeof(hostname) - 1);
hostname[sizeof(hostname) - 1] = '\0';
if (hostname[0] == '\0')
strcpy(hostname, "Amnesiac");
I.e. - if the string the gethostname syscall copies onto hostname is
empty, use the name "Amnesiac".
<mike
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