Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:23 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706181709230.1900@hymn01.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070618133205.916c1a91.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu@wlink.com.np>: > >> Prakash Poudyal wrote: >>> Hello Tek >>> I think you donot have a root password it may be blank. And you know the >>> group of the root is wheel. your user group and root group is same so be >>> careful with that too. >> >> Hi Prakash, >> >> This is the 2nd time that I am facing this root password problem in >> FreeBSD-6.2. >> >> I did set the root password during sysinstall. In addition, I had even >> created a user account in the wheel group. However, for some strange >> reasons, the user got deleted and the root's password got reseted to >> blank when the freebsd box got rebooted. >> >> After reboot, I again have to manually set the root password and create >> a user account once again. All is fine and well after that. >> >> I have really found FreeBSD-6.2 stable and steady for production use >> however. > > You've got something bizarre going on with your setup. I've never seen > the behaviour you describe. > > Are you sure that when you set the password, it actually works? It's > difficult for me to even imagine what kind of problem would cause what > you describe without the system also being completely unstable as well. > > Can you give us script captures of the process (sanitized as necessary, > don't email out any passwords) so we can see what you're doing any all > the messages the system provides? > > -- > Bill Moran > http://www.potentialtech.com I've seen that before, but not since when I was first getting started out in 5.4. Did you accidentally overwrite and install at least base from scratch? Always go to post-configuration (or whatever the option is), and not the installation section.. -Garrett
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