Re: root login
In an attempt to save the world from disaster, Kirstin S. Reese wrote:
>
> I've had to repair a system whose filesystem was slightly corrupted.
>
> It's in good shape now, except that, from the console, a login for root
> does not request a password, it just logs you in.
>
> And tty0 does not even prompt. It just logs in as root.
>
> I believe that the installion script did not fully finish on this machine,
> but I can't find any information about this.
going for the obvious, but:
Are you sure root has a passwd set?
# grep root /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
/etc/passwd:root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
/etc/shadow:root:u384kf835ishasdf:10063:0:99999:7:::
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
are you sure that paswd is not empty? (Eighter in
etc/passwd, or in /etc/shadow).
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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
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