Re: No Password for Root

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

Art,

What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show?

Bob

On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:49:37PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> > 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.
> 
>       I tried that, but a login to root still requires only the login: root
> without a password.  It appears to be logging to root in a shell other than
> the default shell.
> 
> Art
> 
> > 
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