Re: No Password for Root
On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 04:00:09PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> Well, that would mean that root has no password and has /bin/bash as its
> shell.
>
> ls -al /etc/passwd should show
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1441 Nov 10 09:51 /etc/passwd
>
> If root doesn't have write permission, that would prevent it from being
> updated when you run passwd.
...which is what it shows. And passwd -S showed
root P 01/23/99 0 99999 7 -1
>
> Strange.
Yep.
Art
>
> Bob
>
> >
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Mark Brown mailto:broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk (Trying to avoid grumpiness)
> > > > > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/
> > > > > EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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