On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matthew P. Carlson wrote: > I'm new to FreeBSD, so I hope I'm posting to the right list, and I know > I'm probably leaving out something important out, but oh well. > > I installed FreeBSD 5.1, used cvsup to get freebsd 5.1-current, > recompiled, and now logging in locally doesn't require a password. > Neither does su. Ssh does. Membership of wheel is still verified. Is > it normal not to ask for a password, or ... ? Did you perhaps - by mistake - overwrite your /etc/master.passwd file with mergemaster? root's password would stay blank then.
Regards, Uli. > > Here's the output of 'uname -a' > FreeBSD yellow.setec.nu 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Jul 7 > 08:19:29 PDT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL > i386 > > Thanks in advance, > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > +-----------------------------------+ | Peter Ulrich Kruppa | | - Wuppertal - | | Germany | +-----------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"