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Subject: Re: su to root not prompting for a password
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At 09:45 AM 4/17/2006, James Riendeau wrote:
>I upgraded to 6.1 RC-1 from 5.4, and when I su to root, it's not
>prompting for a password.  I created a new account, and it does the
>same thing there.  If the user is in the wheel group, it drops to the
># prompt.  If not, it echos the BAD SU attempt error message.  I
>think it has something to do with PAM, but the documentation is not
>exactly written for those of us who don't have MS/Ph.D.'s in computer
>science.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  I thought I followed all
>the directions in /usr/src/UPDATING, but I must have done something
>wrong, probably while using mergemaster.

You likely installed the default passwd file, which has no password for root.

Assign a password to root and you'll be fine.

-Glenn


>My apologies if this has already been asked, but the search function
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>beyond the first, and google didn't help.
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>Many thanks,
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>James Riendeau
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