From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 02:17:20 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 A5F2216A421 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdprakash@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F22A13C4B8 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:17:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsdprakash@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so1107268wra for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:17:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=LP5P6mp9rbQbHmPzZLb+I7I5MPEIdm0FYcgQuk08FCXwgczwADpHAYX6m9Q86kbwELyyin7F9MnOb1VpDO2giH3oGM8qhhmhXdGaSdsiocyxqvzQiu3Apk3AZ4h1Qxa0oS6t5hDO+71wGPFq//jkhf7lqFCP/3NbDwGAM+RXWqE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=P8lJofsALewaO+Z+TZPPzWLBXN7AipGf2MFAHQj8yVra4qg5rSkZDJ2xNj5smkk/Zs9nvqVM0OpCOJwTG78Y8k3q0bMxwtC9INMuAAdBlGJ11NfoXUR7YfRKe8knV72fwwjk79TDaq8yM1YkjGJ5AAUzOwkQfG82WiIWIc9RseA= Received: by 10.142.255.14 with SMTP id c14mr330212wfi.1182219439291; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.12.9 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1428d0e80706181917l472e3b4fuf991be4ebbfc4daf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:02:19 +0545 From: "Prakash Poudyal" To: "Tek Bahadur Limbu" In-Reply-To: <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> <1428d0e80706180929p5bf02e49t5afa233a670e10f0@mail.gmail.com> <4676B7D3.4010103@wlink.com.np> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Momchil Ivanov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 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 02:17:20 -0000 Hello Tek Thanks. It is good tips for me as well. prakash On 6/18/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu 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 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" > > > > > > > >