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AVersatilePrimate
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 Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 6:20 pm Post subject: Not being prompted for password |
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Hey
Every time I login with what ever username (including root), I am not prompted for a password. I just get logged in and goto the appropriate shell etc. This behaviour is exhibited by su also.
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Dorian
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Have you ever defined the password for them?
The non-password accounts are described with the following lines in /etc/passwd file:
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username::1000:100::/home/username:/bin/bash
^ here is double colon against usual ':x:'
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AVersatilePrimate
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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the passwords have been defined. I did tha for every user, especially root  . |
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dyqik
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Location: Oxford, UK
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I suppose you have tried running passwd as root? again, that is? |
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AVersatilePrimate
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| Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| the login command seems to be one messing up. can i just re-emerge it or something? |
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