On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 07:49:37PM +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:11:24PM +0000, Art Lemasters wrote:
>
> > The present situation is that the system is running slink
> > (frozen), and logins to root can be made without a password while all
> > other users require passwords. I'm stalling remote users (volunteer
> > projects) until this situation is remedied.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you should run the passwd program as root
> to set a password.
I tried that, but a login to root still requires only the login: root
without a password. It appears to be logging to root in a shell other than
the default shell.
Art
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