Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Momchil Ivanov wrote:
> 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?
> 

Hi Momchil,

I did set the password for the root account. It's not empty. All the 
users of the wheel group simply got access using the command:  su -

By the way, the problem disappeared after a normal reboot. But still, it 
got me alarmed.

Thanks for your concern and reply.


Thanking you...