Date: Sat, 27 May 2023 10:36:18 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Surprise null root password Message-ID: <202305271736.34RHaI1H025653@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <ZHFqzf9A90L9NfJb@www.zefox.net>
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> 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? No, but I suspect your build/update procedures are infact telling the system to do this. Someone else pointed out etcupdate, which iirc you are using, with the update of "thiers all" infact would overwrite /etc/master.passwd. I do not know that etcupdate has the smarts to know that if it overwrites /etc/master.passwd it needs to run a pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd. etcupdate infact does have the smarts to run a pwd_mkdb. Hum, it also has some special casing of PREWORLD_FILES, which is /etc/master.passwd and etc/group. Perhaps something in that process went wrong. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.orghelp
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