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Date:      Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:45:08 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        MaXX <admsrv_maxx@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Possible security hole in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE????
Message-ID:  <20040423114508.GA12087@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <BAY16-DAV15Y0W9PMy50002ca5d@hotmail.com>
References:  <BAY16-DAV15Y0W9PMy50002ca5d@hotmail.com>

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On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:38:47PM +0200, MaXX wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>     I have installed FreeBSD 4.8Release on a machine to experiment settings
> before attempting to place them on my "server". Due to a problem with the
> port system on this machine I decided to reinstall only the port system via
> sysinstall, during the process, I switched to anoter console (ttyv3) and
> login as root, the password was not asked...

You're asked to choose the root password when you first install the
system.  If you choose not to set it, then the account will have no
password.  By default you still cannot log in remotely to the root
account, or to accounts without passwords.

Kris

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