Re: root loggin in to console without network?

From: Dragan Cvetkovic (me_at_privacy.net)
Date: 09/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:02:12 -0400

mgrd <mgrd@gmx.net> writes:

> Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
> [..]
>> Password for root is in
>> /etc/security/passwd, all other users are via NIS.
>
> Are you sure?
> Verify in /etc/passwd if the entry for `root' is before the NIS entry,
> which is +::0:0::: (or similar)
>
> just a thought..

It is there:

$ grep -n root /etc/passwd
1:root:!:0:0::/:/usr/bin/ksh
$ grep -n '+::' /etc/passwd
11:+::0:0:::

i.e. root entry is at line 1, '+::0:0' is at line 11 (there are some other
entries after that but no root). Besides

ypcat passwd | grep root

returns nothing (i.e. we don't publish root password via NIS).

Dragan 

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