Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 22:49:35 -0800 From: "Derrick Ryalls" <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> To: "'kirt'" <krs@gaultopia.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: vulnerability in su? Message-ID: <003401c3a68d$a678a5b0$0201a8c0@bartxp> In-Reply-To: <20031109012325.GD829@yttrium.gaultopia.org>
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> > while recently cvsup'ing my box here at home, i had a weird > thing happen... > > i had already built world, built and installed the kernel, > installed world (including all > appropriate reboots), and when i brought it back up, but > prior to running mergemaster, i > popped the jumper on the circuit the box is on. my ups is > somewhat wimpy, and only lasts > a couple minutes (the fuse trips all the time too.. stupid > apartment wiring can't handle > 2 computers and the washer and dryer at once =P ) so i made > it a priority to go ahead and > shut the box down. after fixing said jumper and bring the > box back up i noticed that i > could now su like a madman, without ever being prompted for > passwords. i then remembered > that i hadn't run mergemaster yet, so i ran it again and > rebooted for safe measure and su > started asking for passwords again. > I think the only time this happens is if the root password is blank. It is possible that one of your mergemaster runs put in the default root password (blank).
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