From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 21 7: 7:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc4-card4-0-cust162.cdf.cable.ntl.com [80.4.14.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAC0137B41B for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 07:07:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 16zI04-0001ox-00; Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:07:32 +0100 Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 15:07:32 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System message - Passwordless account Message-ID: <20020421140732.GB6348@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , "Jack L. Stone" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3.0.5.32.20020421072851.011f46c8@mail.sage-one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020421072851.011f46c8@mail.sage-one.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 07:28:51AM -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: > I'm running FBSD 4.5-release (was 4.5-stable). > > >From the system's daily security check on one of the machines, it reports > this error: > "Checking for passwordless accounts: > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/csh" > > I suspect the above occurred when updating and I ran into the snag about > unknow user "smmsp" for the sendmail 8.12 thing. After placing the "new" > sendmail users in group and passwd, I ran pwd_mkdb master.passwd to update > the database. Apparently, I screwed up during the "mergemaster" stage (or > somewhere) because on reboot, my normal users were missing and root didn't > have a password (just hitting enter got in). BUT, I went into > /stand/sysinstall and reset the password, or so I thought.... at lease when > I login as root, it accepts the password... so, I'm puzzled about the > "passwordless account" message. > > Since the problem is with root, I'm concerned I may mess up further. What > should I do to correct this before things get screwed up more....??? Thanks. You can simply log in as root and type : passwd root to reset the password. Ceri -- get the cool shoe shine To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message