From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 00:09:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D30616A49E for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DAB013C4C1 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:09:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from hymn01.u.washington.edu (hymn01.u.washington.edu [140.142.8.55]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.05) with ESMTP id l5J09NRw004861 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:24 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hymn01.u.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW07.03) with ESMTP id l5J09NVr019453 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:23 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.55.52.1] by hymn01.u.washington.edu via HTTP; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:23 PDT Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 17:09:23 -0700 (PDT) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070618133205.916c1a91.wmoran@potentialtech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PMX-Version: 5.3.1.294258, Antispam-Engine: 2.5.1.298604, Antispam-Data: 2007.6.18.165333 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='NO_REAL_NAME 0, __CP_URI_IN_BODY 0, __CT 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' Cc: Subject: Re: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 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: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 00:09:24 -0000 On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Tek Bahadur Limbu : > >> 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