From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 18 16:50:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5711716A421 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teklimbu@wlink.com.np) Received: from smtp5.wlink.com.np (smtp5.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B077513C457 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teklimbu@wlink.com.np) Received: (qmail 16814 invoked from network); 18 Jun 2007 16:50:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp1.wlink.com.np) (202.79.32.76) by 0 with SMTP; 18 Jun 2007 16:50:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 39233 invoked by uid 98); 18 Jun 2007 16:50:17 -0000 Received: from 202.79.38.83 by smtp1.wlink.com.np (envelope-from , uid 1009) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.4/2205. Clear:RC:1(202.79.38.83):. Processed in 0.048932 secs); 18 Jun 2007 16:50:17 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: teklimbu@wlink.com.np via smtp1.wlink.com.np X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(202.79.38.83):. Processed in 0.048932 secs) Received: from [202.79.38.83] (HELO [202.79.38.83]) by smtp1.wlink.com.np (qmail-smtpd) with SMTP; 18 Jun 2007 16:50:14 -0000 (Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:35:14 +0545) Message-ID: <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:35:27 +0545 From: Tek Bahadur Limbu User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Prakash Poudyal References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Check-By: smtp1.wlink.com.np Spam: No ; 0.3 / 7.0 X-Spam-Status-WL: No, hits=0.3 required=7.0 Cc: Momchil Ivanov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:50:29 -0000 Prakash Poudyal wrote: > 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. Hi Prakash, This is the 2nd time that I am facing this root password problem in FreeBSD-6.2. I did set the root password during sysinstall. In addition, I had even created a user account in the wheel group. However, for some strange reasons, the user got deleted and the root's password got reseted to blank when the freebsd box got rebooted. After reboot, I again have to manually set the root password and create a user account once again. All is fine and well after that. I have really found FreeBSD-6.2 stable and steady for production use however. Thanking you... > > prakash > > On 6/17/07, Momchil Ivanov 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > >