su - does not ask for password

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From: Teo De Las Heras <teoherasgmail.com>
Date: Oct 14, 2005 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: su - does not ask for password
To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.stroblgmx.net>

My account has a password and when I "su -" I go
right in as root without a
password prompt. What changed?
 Teo

 On 10/14/05, Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.stroblgmx.net> wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 14. Oktober 2005 17:48 CEST schrieb Teo De
Las Heras:
> > I've added myself to the wheel group and can
successfully su - into
> > root. I'm wondering though, where I make the
configuration to ask for a
> > password when su - is called.
>
> You have to assign the superuser a password first. su
will always ask for
> the password if the user has one and the executing user
is not root (id0)
>
> -Harry
>
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> My account has a password and when
> I "su -" I go right in as root without a
> password prompt. What changed?
>
>  Teo
>

% su
# passwd
Changing local password for root
New Password:
Retype New Password:
#

Now you're done.
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That worked!  I thought I remembered giving root a
password!?  So, if
you don't have a password set, one is not asked for?

Teo

On 10/14/05, Andrew P. <infofarmergmail.com> wrote:
> > My account has a password and when
> > I "su -" I go right in as root without a
> > password prompt. What changed?
> >
> >  Teo
> >
>
> % su
> # passwd
> Changing local password for root
> New Password:
> Retype New Password:
> #
>
> Now you're done.
>
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On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoherasgmail.com> wrote:
> That worked!  I thought I remembered giving root a
password!?  So, if
> you don't have a password set, one is not asked for?
>
> Teo
>

Quite so. You should never ever leave root password
blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs
try to be secure and deny root access (in some ways)
if there's no password.
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That's exactly why I just assumed that I had set a password
for root...I
didn't think it was possible to not have a password set.
 Teo

 On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <infofarmergmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoherasgmail.com> wrote:
> > That worked! I thought I remembered giving root a
password!? So, if
> > you don't have a password set, one is not asked
for?
> >
> > Teo
> >
>
> Quite so. You should never ever leave root password
> blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs
> try to be secure and deny root access (in some ways)
> if there's no password.
>
>
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Teo,

If you check your log files you may see something in
there about passwordless accounts. 

~Mr. Anderson
--- Teo De Las Heras <teoherasgmail.com> wrote:

> That's exactly why I just assumed that I had set a
> password for root...I
> didn't think it was possible to not have a password
> set.
>  Teo
> 
>  On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <infofarmergmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <teoherasgmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > That worked! I thought I remembered giving
root
> a password!? So, if
> > > you don't have a password set, one is not
asked
> for?
> > >
> > > Teo
> > >
> >
> > Quite so. You should never ever leave root
> password
> > blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs
> > try to be secure and deny root access (in some
> ways)
> > if there's no password.
> >
> >
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