Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:02:19 +0545 From: "Prakash Poudyal" <bsdprakash@gmail.com> To: "Tek Bahadur Limbu" <teklimbu@wlink.com.np> Cc: Momchil Ivanov <slogster@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 Message-ID: <1428d0e80706181917l472e3b4fuf991be4ebbfc4daf@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np> References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np>
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Hello Tek Thanks. It is good tips for me as well. prakash On 6/18/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu@wlink.com.np> wrote: > > 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. > > Thanking you... > > > > > > > prakash > > > > On 6/17/07, Momchil Ivanov <slogster@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:24:46 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote: > >> > Hi All, > >> > > >> > I just installed FreeBSD-6.2 today. However, a problem has come up. > >> > Whenever I create a new user and add them to the wheel group, they > can > >> get > >> > root access without getting a root password prompt! > >> > > >> > Is my passwd file corrupt or is it due to some misconfiguration in my > >> > freebsd box? > >> > > >> > Can somebody shed some light on this? > >> > > >> > Thanking you... > >> > >> How do they get root access? su root or what? Did you set password for > >> the > >> root account or is it just empty? > >> > >> -- > >> PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B > >> Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu > >> Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > > > > >
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