Blank password works for root

[Jim Laverty]

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?


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From: fedora-list-admin at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com] On
Behalf Of Bevan C. Bennett
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 2:44 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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.


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