(Free 7.2) "su -l" didnt prompt password.Is it possbile?

Julian H. Stacey jhs at berklix.com
Mon Jun 18 17:33:20 UTC 2012


> The only thing I can think of ATM is .. did you recently perform and
> upgrade from source with this system ? mergemaster ?

Most mis dials on the phone network used to be proven to be human
not machine, despite people said they were careful & had not made mistakes.

Never underestimate human error.  I've know test hosts that were
off line & someone zeroed out the root pwd while sys was under
debug/repair, to save a visiting expert needing a tmp root pwd.
(A bad habit, but its's been known).  Then some time later one
discovers it is Still zeroed out ;-) ...

To err is human, to BSD is divine ;-)

Cheers,
Julian
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