On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Bill Beeman wrote: > I just discovered that I can log into my FC1 box as root with either the > root password, or by simply leaving the password blank! > > Functions this way from a command line, or in a terminal within either > KDE or Gnome. > > Can anyone suggest where to look to stop this behavior. This was a RH9 > box upgraded to FC1, and has all current patches applied. My guesswork is coming from my experience with SuSE, not Fedora... Do you have the "auto-login at boot" enabled? If so, I discovered that this will pretty much make passwords unnecessary anywhere. (Although the system does continue to ask for 'em.) Krikket
