Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: James Riendeau <jtriende@wisc.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: su to root not prompting for a password Message-ID: <20060417185732.GA99308@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <B704E22E-78B9-414F-8679-F09F167A571F@wisc.edu> References: <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk> <B704E22E-78B9-414F-8679-F09F167A571F@wisc.edu>
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In the last episode (Apr 17), James Riendeau said: > 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. There's also a copy of the previous 2 revisions of master.passwd stored in /var/backups , if you want to make sure nothing else is missing. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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