On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +0000, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. > None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have > passwd by default, and I never touched it, so I expected > logins -p to show toor, but it didn't. > > Just to check I also tried to su toor with root passwd - no access. > > Please can somebody clarify if toor does indeed have > passwd.
toor, like many other system accounts, by default has its password entry set to '*' which indicates that password authenictation is disabled for that account. (See the passwd(5) manpage for details.) This means that unless you set a password for toor you cannot login as toor, so the mere presence of that account is not a security problem. -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1...@student.uu.se _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
