From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 31 14:59:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from omta02.mta.everyone.net (sitemail.everyone.net [216.200.145.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19C937B719 for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:58:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@sysmach.com) Received: from sitemail.everyone.net (reports [216.200.145.62]) by omta02.mta.everyone.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B602C1C3CAB for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:57:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by sitemail.everyone.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 42E6B274B; Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:57:52 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain Content-Disposition: inline Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 4.104 (Entity 4.117) Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 14:57:52 -0800 (PST) From: Kyle To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: login:root doesnt prompt me for password : please advice Reply-To: freebsd@sysmach.com X-Originating-Ip: [204.196.180.153] Message-Id: <20010331225752.42E6B274B@sitemail.everyone.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG After failing to set up a dialup connection, I noticed that if I tried logging in with the login:root, it doesnt prompt me for the password anymore but loads me right into the shell. Is this common? Please advice. Thanks == _____________________________________________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon campaign against E-Mail \ / in gratuitous HTML and Microsoft X proprietary formats. / \ _____________________________________________________________ Systems at MACHSPEED!! http://sysmach.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message