On Jun 18, 2012 2:34 PM, "Budnev Vladimir" <vladimir.bud...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone. > We'v noticed some strange situation. After reboot and login, system didn't ask for password while switchig with su -l. > > In details, there was root login from terminal and one from ssh. > Terminal login was directly as root(via ip-console), and ssh was as user, then attemped switch to root with su -l, and there were NO password request,no prompt at all. At the same time login from terminal accepted root password, first I thought that means password wasn't empty, but system even with empty password should print "Password:"..and that time it was nothing absolultey.
Empty password behaviour is for no prompt, so what you are seeing is normal, and means that you did indeed have a empty password. Check your logs very carefully over the past few weeks to make sure no one has broken in. Chris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"