From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 4 21:51:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls20.mediaone.net (chmls20.mediaone.net [24.147.1.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1047737B405; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:51:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from keyslapper.org (acadia.ne.mediaone.net [65.96.186.69]) by chmls20.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id fA55qbx10053; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:52:37 -0500 (EST) Received: (from leblanc@localhost) by keyslapper.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fA55psO50055; Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:51:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from leblanc) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 00:51:53 -0500 From: Louis LeBlanc To: questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: su problems - no password needed Message-ID: <20011105005153.A49306@keyslapper.org> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Mail-Followup-To: questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011105134247.01ea3e50@pop.ozemail.com.au> <5.1.0.14.2.20011105152848.020c7a30@pop.ozemail.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20011105152848.020c7a30@pop.ozemail.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i X-bright-idea: Lets abolish HTML mail! Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/05/01 03:29 PM, Rob B sat at the `puter and typed: > At 14:26 5/11/2001, Edwin Groothuis sent this up the stick: > >On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 01:46:47PM +1100, Rob B wrote: > > > I'm having an issue with su. My user is in the wheel group, and when= =20 > > doing > > > su - (ie: su to root, using root's environment) no password is asked > > > for. this was not the case until I built world recently. any way to= get > > > the password thing back? > > > >If you do "vipw", what do you see then in the second field of the root-u= ser? > >Something like this? > > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/usr/local/bin/bash > > > >Or is there a string filled in. > > > >Anyway, becoming root and using the passwd command would solve it > >for what I think of it. >=20 > Yep, that was it, no password set (alhough I did set one when I installed= 4.4) >=20 > Thanks, > Rob Then if I could just toss my $0.02 in here, you might want to verify that all the user accounts are still configured properly - passwords, etc.. L --=20 Louis LeBlanc leblanc@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org =D4=BF=D4=AC Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher von Braun --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE75ij5eAPWYrNkRWIRAr2dAJ9XsJukb6FzgbyZmq9aZhaBBiWwmwCdER8T YxXUfbLnSb1DtZEijJFiGBo= =iryv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --W/nzBZO5zC0uMSeA-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message