From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 17 18:57:38 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 6457E16A403 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:57:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082C143D46 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:57:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.4) id k3HIvXAB048212; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: James Riendeau Message-ID: <20060417185732.GA99308@dan.emsphone.com> References: <02d101c6623f$e9902ec0$0101a8c0@petenet.britersen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.5-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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 18:57:38 -0000 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