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Date:      Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:19:57 -0500
From:      Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz>
To:        Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Default root password for FreeBSD 4.2-RC2
Message-ID:  <425F40ED.7090108@daleco.biz>
In-Reply-To: <a64c109e050414202243ecd121@mail.gmail.com>
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Abu Khaled wrote:

>On 4/15/05, MZaini <mzaini@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Section 10.12 in System Administration only addresses the issue when
>>the person is on site which is not in my case. Since the default
>>installation would come with its own /etc/passwd, /etc/group,
>>/etc/master.passwd, /etc/pwd.db, /etc/spwd.db then I should have been
>>able to login using the root account that came with the default. True
>>or not?
>>    
>>

And with the default /etc/ssh/sshd_config, if you are _not_ at
the console, root logins are _not_ allowed.  Period*.

However, if you had another account from which to
log in to the system, it should not have been deleted,
AFAIK, unless you made a mistake while using mergemaster. 

Kevin Kinsey

*Unless you have specifically enabled them, which is
absolutely _not_ considered a Good Thing(tm).



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