From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 11:12:45 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 AA27B16A469 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slogster@gmail.com) Received: from smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de (smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.143.252]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69C1F13C4B7 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:12:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from slogster@gmail.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ACA6251; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:44 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at studnetz-ul Received: from smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4C1j7PBOveHV; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from a144026.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de (a144026.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.144.26]) by smtp.studnetz.uni-leipzig.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DAAA250; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Momchil Ivanov To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:35 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> In-Reply-To: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart147760794.4Wbs33NBRh"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> Cc: Tek Bahadur Limbu 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: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:12:45 -0000 --nextPart147760794.4Wbs33NBRh Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 root account or is it just empty? =2D-=20 PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E =A0158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B =20 --nextPart147760794.4Wbs33NBRh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGdRcj4D1W2jEYFosRAiLrAKCB4JRIUG/w4c7fg0ALnGH1FZL9MACgpVMW qzTk4wgivY5KTbeWPojol1A= =wHWD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart147760794.4Wbs33NBRh--