Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2
Momchil Ivanov
slogster at gmail.com
Sun Jun 17 11:12:45 UTC 2007
On Sunday 17 June 2007 11:24:46 Tek Bahadur Limbu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD-6.2 today. However, a problem has come up.
> Whenever I create a new user and add them to the wheel group, they can get
> root access without getting a root password prompt!
>
> Is my passwd file corrupt or is it due to some misconfiguration in my
> freebsd box?
>
> Can somebody shed some light on this?
>
> Thanking you...
How do they get root access? su root or what? Did you set password for the
root account or is it just empty?
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