> > while recently cvsup'ing my box here at home, i had a weird > thing happen... > > i had already built world, built and installed the kernel, > installed world (including all > appropriate reboots), and when i brought it back up, but > prior to running mergemaster, i > popped the jumper on the circuit the box is on. my ups is > somewhat wimpy, and only lasts > a couple minutes (the fuse trips all the time too.. stupid > apartment wiring can't handle > 2 computers and the washer and dryer at once =P ) so i made > it a priority to go ahead and > shut the box down. after fixing said jumper and bring the > box back up i noticed that i > could now su like a madman, without ever being prompted for > passwords. i then remembered > that i hadn't run mergemaster yet, so i ran it again and > rebooted for safe measure and su > started asking for passwords again. >
I think the only time this happens is if the root password is blank. It is possible that one of your mergemaster runs put in the default root password (blank). _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
