On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 01:39:11PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > Art, > > > > What does 'grep root /etc/passwd' show? > > It shows > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
Well, that would mean that root has no password and has /bin/bash as its shell. ls -al /etc/passwd should show -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1441 Nov 10 09:51 /etc/passwd If root doesn't have write permission, that would prevent it from being updated when you run passwd. Strange. Bob > > > Art > > > > > Bob > > > > On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Art Lemasters wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) > > > > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ > > > > EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/ > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > > > > > > > > > ---- > > Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
