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Subject: Re: su - does not ask for password
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On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> wrote:
> That worked!  I thought I remembered giving root a password!?  So, if
> you don't have a password set, one is not asked for?
>
> Teo
>

Quite so. You should never ever leave root password
blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs
try to be secure and deny root access (in some ways)
if there's no password.