Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:14:40 +0545 From: "Prakash Poudyal" <bsdprakash@gmail.com> To: "Momchil Ivanov" <slogster@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 Message-ID: <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com>
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Hello Tek I think you donot have a root password it may be blank. And you know the group of the root is wheel. your user group and root group is same so be careful with that too. prakash On 6/17/07, Momchil Ivanov <slogster@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:24:46 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I just installed FreeBSD-6.2 today. However, a problem has come up. > > Whenever I create a new user and add them to the wheel group, they can > get > > root access without getting a root password prompt! > > > > Is my passwd file corrupt or is it due to some misconfiguration in my > > freebsd box? > > > > Can somebody shed some light on this? > > > > Thanking you... > > How do they get root access? su root or what? Did you set password for the > root account or is it just empty? > > -- > PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B > Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu > Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B > > >
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