Re: No Password for Root

[Art Lemasters <dream@luvmusl.net>]

On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Art,
> 
> What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show?

     It shows

root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash


Art

> 
> 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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> > >             http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
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> > 
> > 
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