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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