From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 28 12:41:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA02241 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:41:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from netrover.com (ottawa6.netrover.com [205.209.19.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA02232 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 12:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brianc@localhost) by netrover.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA06662; Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:40:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:40:20 -0500 From: brianc@netrover.com (Brian Campbell) To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: No password account on 2.2.1-RELEASE References: <199703271002.TAA29041@frig.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> <97Mar28.104607pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-to: brianc@pobox.com In-Reply-To: <97Mar28.104607pst.177486@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>; from Bill Fenner on Mar 28, 1997 10:46:01 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Fenner writes: > hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi) wrote: > >If 2.2.1-RELEASE does not permit no-password account > > But it does. The box that I installed last week still doesn't have a root > password. Just hit "enter" at the password prompt. Perhaps hosokawa and myself are the only two experiencing the problem, but two points. Firstly, I don't think 2.2.1-RELEASE was out last week, and secondly by "no-password account" I meant accounts for which you won't even be prompted for a password. The third point, , is that after installing bin.*, the root account doesn't require a password (i.e. the passwd field is empty, as opposed to an encrypted version of a newline), and whatever is broken with my 2.2.1R won't let anyone with such a passwd entry login. I had to boot -s.