Blank password works for root

[Bill Beeman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com
> On Behalf Of Nix, Robert P.
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 11:21 AM
> Subject: RE: Blank password works for root
>
>
> In looking at my system-auth file, I have the line you are
> referencing (with likeauth nullok) but I don't have the
> problem you have; no password does not work for root on my
> system (or for any other userid, for that matter...) While
> taking that off may make your problem go away, I don't think
> it's the solution.... There's something else going on.
>
> ----
> Robert P. Nix                            internet: nix.robert at mayo.edu

Thanks for the info...I suspect that myself, but have not turned up the
root cause.

I don't have a great deal of software on this machine yet, so I think
I'm about to flush it and reinstall clean to see what happens.

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?

Bill