From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 5 4:57:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from magneto.precisioncs.net (pcsi2.coast.net [207.158.140.138]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F070537B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason (jason.office.precisioncs.net [131.107.2.223]) by magneto.precisioncs.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id HAA81563; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 07:57:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from username@cac.net) Message-ID: <002c01c01730$791ebae0$df026b83@jason> From: "Jason" To: "Moritz Hardt" Cc: References: Subject: Re: no password required at login Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 07:57:30 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you have done a fresh installed you will need to login as root and then type 'passwd' this will enable you to set a root password. for more information you can type 'man passwd'. (command are typed without the '') - -Jason - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Moritz Hardt" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:43 AM Subject: no password required at login > Hello, > > while i was installing some packages on ttyv0, i was able to login > from any other tty as root without typing in a password or > something. i just typed 'root' as login and hit enter and i got in. > > i don't think this is a hole, so could you please tell me what that > has to mean or what im doing wrong. > > thanks a lot > > > - Moritz Hardt > > ...Keep Lynx Alive! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBObTfqHFM6tZ+sl1iEQJftQCcDzopOzykaNvp0a8PpNSVeijnqioAoOBF 1qzIXEjb/vSH8fj+3TudFdVC =2iNy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message