From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 18:46:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B3716A405 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jtriende@wisc.edu) Received: from smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu (hagen.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037A543D55 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:46:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jtriende@wisc.edu) Received: from avs-daemon.smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.08 (built Sep 22 2005)) id <0IXV0090MQTYI2@smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [128.104.10.240] by smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.08 (built Sep 22 2005)) with ESMTPSA id <0IXV00JUSQTS43@smtp7.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:46:39 -0500 From: James Riendeau In-reply-to: <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk> To: Petersen Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-3, Version=5.1.2.240295, Antispam-Engine: 2.3.0.1, Antispam-Data: 2006.4.17.112109, SenderIP=0.0.0.0 References: <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su to root not prompting for a password 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, 17 Apr 2006 18:46:59 -0000 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