Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2

Prakash Poudyal bsdprakash at gmail.com
Mon Jun 18 16:29:42 UTC 2007


Hello Tek
I think you donot have a root password it may be blank. And you know the
group of the root is wheel. your user group and root group is same so be
careful with that too.

prakash

On 6/17/07, Momchil Ivanov <slogster at gmail.com> 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?
>
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