su - does not ask for password

Kris Anderson ciscoaix at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 15 09:55:27 PDT 2005


Teo,

If you check your log files you may see something in
there about passwordless accounts. :)

~Mr. Anderson
--- Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com> wrote:

> That's exactly why I just assumed that I had set a
> password for root...I
> didn't think it was possible to not have a password
> set.
>  Teo
> 
>  On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <infofarmer at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoheras at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > That worked! I thought I remembered giving root
> a password!? So, if
> > > you don't have a password set, one is not asked
> for?
> > >
> > > Teo
> > >
> >
> > Quite so. You should never ever leave root
> password
> > blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs
> > try to be secure and deny root access (in some
> ways)
> > if there's no password.
> >
> >
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