Blank password works for root

[Krikket]

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