From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 17 16:22:31 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 1E91016A468 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:22:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teklimbu@wlink.com.np) Received: from smtp5.wlink.com.np (smtp5.wlink.com.np [202.79.32.52]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B00013C447 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from teklimbu@wlink.com.np) Received: (qmail 98590 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp8.wlink.com.np) (202.79.32.38) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 27951 invoked by uid 98); 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 Received: from 202.79.32.77 by smtp8.wlink.com.np (envelope-from , uid 1004) with qmail-scanner-1.25 (clamdscan: 0.88.7/3343. Clear:RC:1(202.79.32.77):. Processed in 0.101524 secs); 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: teklimbu@wlink.com.np via smtp8.wlink.com.np X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.25 (Clear:RC:1(202.79.32.77):. Processed in 0.101524 secs) Received: from smtp2.wlink.com.np (202.79.32.77) by smtp8.wlink.com.np with SMTP; 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 22165 invoked by uid 516); 17 Jun 2007 16:22:25 -0000 Received: from [202.79.38.83] (HELO [202.79.38.83]) by smtp2.wlink.com.np (qmail-smtpd) with SMTP; 17 Jun 2007 16:22:22 -0000 (Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:07:22 +0545) Message-ID: <46755FCB.6080007@wlink.com.np> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:07:35 +0545 From: Tek Bahadur Limbu User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Momchil Ivanov References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Check-By: smtp2.wlink.com.np Spam: No ; 0.3 / 7.0 X-Spam-Status-WL: No, hits=0.3 required=7.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:22:31 -0000 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? > Hi Momchil, I did set the password for the root account. It's not empty. All the users of the wheel group simply got access using the command: su - By the way, the problem disappeared after a normal reboot. But still, it got me alarmed. Thanks for your concern and reply. Thanking you...