If you disable LDAP on this box, do the root logins display the same behavior? Do you have this working properly on any other Fedora box? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bevan C. Bennett Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:44 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Blank password works for root 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. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
