Re: no password at login

From: P. U. Kruppa (root_at_pukruppa.de)
Date: 07/08/03

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    Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:27:29 +0200 (CEST)
    To: "Matthew P. Carlson" <matt@setec.nu>
    
    

    On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Matthew P. Carlson wrote:

    > I'm new to FreeBSD, so I hope I'm posting to the right list, and I know
    > I'm probably leaving out something important out, but oh well.
    >
    > I installed FreeBSD 5.1, used cvsup to get freebsd 5.1-current,
    > recompiled, and now logging in locally doesn't require a password.
    > Neither does su. Ssh does. Membership of wheel is still verified. Is
    > it normal not to ask for a password, or ... ?
    Did you perhaps - by mistake - overwrite your /etc/master.passwd
    file with mergemaster?
    root's password would stay blank then.

    Regards,

    Uli.

    >
    > Here's the output of 'uname -a'
    > FreeBSD yellow.setec.nu 5.1-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT #0: Mon Jul 7
    > 08:19:29 PDT 2003 matt@yellow.setec.nu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL
    > i386
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    > Matt
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