Blank password works for root

[Bill Beeman]

No, that wasn't enabled.  However, just getting both the server and the
client to Samba 3.0.x seemed to have fixed it.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:fedora-list-admin at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Krikket
> Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 7:36 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Blank password works for root
>
>
> 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
>
>
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