From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 04:16:09 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id EAA17049 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:16:09 -0700 Received: from mail.rwth-aachen.de (mail.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.144.9]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id EAA17035 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 04:14:55 -0700 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by mail.rwth-aachen.de (PMDF V4.3-10 #7297) id <01HU7X60M4TC007GE0@mail.rwth-aachen.de>; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:12:28 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.8/8.6.9) id NAA20088; Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:26:05 +0200 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 13:26:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: Christoph Kukulies Subject: Re: superuser In-reply-to: <46.53838.1@bbs.fullcoll.edu> from "Eric Berchtold" at Aug 17, 95 11:48:00 pm To: eric_berchtold@bbs.fullcoll.edu (Eric Berchtold) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Reply-to: Christoph Kukulies Message-id: <199508181126.NAA20088@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-type: text Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-length: 1651 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > heya > Ive been playing around with a copy of FreeBSD V2.0, and I tried > logging on as SU. When I was installing it, it never told me what the > su password was. Do you know what the default would be? Or, what is This is an old 'misunderstanding' and I believe it has been changed meanwhile. The old message, saying don't login as root, use 'su' was meant as a hint to the (knowledgable) unix user to avoid logging in as root (for security reasons) and use the 'su' command instead after having logged in as a normal user. This requires this user to belong to the group 'wheel' (/etc/groups) btw. This was leading to questions like yours in the past. After FreeBSD installation the superuser (root) does not have a password allowing to login as root with no password in multiuser mode. You can (and should) change this by using the passwd command. There is no user or superuser called 'su'. > the file that I would have to view to see what the password is. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. The passwords are encrypted. You can change other information of specific users by using the vipw command. Also there is a adduser script (don't know if it came with 2.0 already). I'd recommend to switch to 2.0.5 anyway once you got acquainted with FreeBSD. > > Thanks in advanced. > > Eric > Eric_Berchtold@fullcoll.edu > > ========================================================================== > Fullerton College claims no responsibility to the opinion expressed above! > ========================================================================== > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de