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Date:      Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:39 -0500
From:      James Riendeau <jtriende@wisc.edu>
To:        Petersen <petersen@petersen.plus.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: su to root not prompting for a password
Message-ID:  <B704E22E-78B9-414F-8679-F09F167A571F@wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk>
References:  <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk>

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Thanks!  I didn't think it was so simple, and I feel like a lunkhead  
for not thinking of that.  I'm accustomed to being prompted for the  
user's password when I run su, even if it is blank (I've been  
spending way too much time on Mac OS X, I guess).   I must have  
clobbered only the root password.  Nobody else complained about being  
unable to login after the upgrade.  Not sure how that happened since  
I was so careful, especially when it got to master.passwd.

-james

> You probably clobbered master.passwd when you mergemastered. In all
> probability, root now has no password at all. Set one with passwd.
>
> Petersen




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