Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread Mike Karels
On 26 May 2023, at 21:28, bob prohaska wrote: > It turns out all seven hosts in my cluster report > a null password for root in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh > > Is that intentional? Well, it has been that way in FreeBSD since 1993, and in BSD since 1980

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread bob prohaska
It turns out all seven hosts in my cluster report a null password for root in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd: root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh Is that intentional? Thanks for reading, bob prohaska

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread Tomoaki AOKI
On Fri, 26 May 2023 16:26:06 -0700 bob prohaska wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 10:55:49PM +0200, Yuri wrote: > > > > The question is how you update the configuration files, > > mergemaster/etcupdate/something else? > > > > Via etcupdate after installworld. In the event the system > requests

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread bob prohaska
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 10:55:49PM +0200, Yuri wrote: > > The question is how you update the configuration files, > mergemaster/etcupdate/something else? > Via etcupdate after installworld. In the event the system requests manual intervention I accept "theirs all". It seems odd if that can null

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread Yuri
bob prohaska wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 07:48:04PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: >> -T on ls will give you full time resolution... >> > More's the wonder: > root@www:/usr/src # ls -lT /etc/*p*wd* > -rw--- 1 root wheel 2099 May 10 17:20:33 2023 /etc/master.passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread bob prohaska
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 07:48:04PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > -T on ls will give you full time resolution... > More's the wonder: root@www:/usr/src # ls -lT /etc/*p*wd* -rw--- 1 root wheel 2099 May 10 17:20:33 2023 /etc/master.passwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1831 May 10 17:20:33 2023

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread Ben Laurie
-T on ls will give you full time resolution... On Fri, 26 May 2023 at 19:45, bob prohaska wrote: > On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 01:03:19PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > > On 26 May 2023, at 12:35, bob prohaska wrote: > > > > > While going through normal security email from a Pi2 > > > running -current

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread bob prohaska
On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 01:03:19PM -0500, Mike Karels wrote: > On 26 May 2023, at 12:35, bob prohaska wrote: > > > While going through normal security email from a Pi2 > > running -current I was disturbed to find: > > > > Checking for passwordless accounts: > > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie

Re: Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread Mike Karels
On 26 May 2023, at 12:35, bob prohaska wrote: > While going through normal security email from a Pi2 > running -current I was disturbed to find: > > Checking for passwordless accounts: > root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh > > The machine had locked up on a -j4 buildworld since > sending the

Surprise null root password

2023-05-26 Thread bob prohaska
While going through normal security email from a Pi2 running -current I was disturbed to find: Checking for passwordless accounts: root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh The machine had locked up on a -j4 buildworld since sending the mail, so it was taken off the net, power cycled and started