Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2

[Tek Bahadur Limbu]

Prakash Poudyal wrote:
> 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.

Hi Prakash,

This is the 2nd time that I am facing this root password problem in 
FreeBSD-6.2.

I did set the root password during sysinstall. In addition, I had even 
created a user account in the wheel group. However, for some strange 
reasons, the user got deleted and the root's password got reseted to 
blank when the freebsd box got rebooted.

After reboot, I again have to manually set the root password and create 
a user account once again. All is fine and well after that.

I have really found FreeBSD-6.2 stable and steady for production use 
however.

Thanking you...



> 
> 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?
>>
>> -- 
>> PGP KeyID: 0x3118168B
>> Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu
>> Key fingerprint BB50 2983 0714 36DC D02E 158A E03D 56DA 3118 168B
>>
>>
>>
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