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Re: No Password for Root



On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:11:24PM +0000, Art Lemasters wrote:

>      The present situation is that the system is running slink
> (frozen), and logins to root can be made without a password while all
> other users require passwords.  I'm stalling remote users (volunteer
> projects) until this situation is remedied.

If I understand you correctly, you should run the passwd program as root
to set a password.

-- 
Mark Brown  mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk   (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
            http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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