no password at login

[P. U. Kruppa]

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     matt at yellow.setec.nu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL
> i386
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Matt
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