Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:12:35 +0200 From: Momchil Ivanov <slogster@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu@wlink.com.np> Subject: Re: Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2 Message-ID: <200706171312.40017.slogster@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np> References: <20070617150946.e9988d41.teklimbu@wlink.com.np>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? -- PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGdRcj4D1W2jEYFosRAiLrAKCB4JRIUG/w4c7fg0ALnGH1FZL9MACgpVMW qzTk4wgivY5KTbeWPojol1A= =wHWD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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