Re: Blank password works for root

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Bill Beeman wrote:
If anyone else has any ideas, I'm open: to recap, a null password works
for root on this machine, whether from the console, a ssh session, or an
X session.  The same when attempting to su...either the root password or
a null password works.

This is not the case with a normal user password.  I've run
chkrootkit-0.43, and it comes up clean.

Ideas?

To reiterate my working theory, I think your root user actually has a null password, either in the system files or in a remote authentication store (like LDAP).


The complete 'auth' contents of your system-auth, plus the root entry from /etc/shadow (obfuscate is desired) would help our debugging efforts.




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