does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

Ruben de Groot mail25 at bzerk.org
Wed Dec 30 12:59:23 UTC 2009


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht typed:
> I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'.
> None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have
> passwd by default, and I never touched it, so I expected
> logins -p to show toor, but it didn't.
> 
> Just to check I also tried to su toor with root passwd - no access. 
> 
> Please can somebody clarify if toor does indeed have
> passwd.

toor:*:0:0::0:0:Bourne-again Superuser:/root:

(from master.passwd)
As you can see, the password is not empty; it's a '*'.
Nothing hashes to *.

Ruben



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