Wheel Group users get root access without password prompt in 6.2

youshi10 at u.washington.edu youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jun 19 00:09:24 UTC 2007


On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Bill Moran wrote:

> In response to Tek Bahadur Limbu <teklimbu at wlink.com.np>:
>
>> 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.
>
> You've got something bizarre going on with your setup.  I've never seen
> the behaviour you describe.
>
> Are you sure that when you set the password, it actually works?  It's
> difficult for me to even imagine what kind of problem would cause what
> you describe without the system also being completely unstable as well.
>
> Can you give us script captures of the process (sanitized as necessary,
> don't email out any passwords) so we can see what you're doing any all
> the messages the system provides?
>
> --
> Bill Moran
> http://www.potentialtech.com

I've seen that before, but not since when I was first getting started out in 5.4.

Did you accidentally overwrite and install at least base from scratch? Always go to post-configuration (or whatever the option is), and not the installation section..

-Garrett



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