4 Nov
2004
4 Nov
'04
21:30
On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 16:22, Ryan McCain wrote:
Can someone help me understand this?
the user "tstaffor" does not have the same UID as root, however when he does "su -", it doesnt prompt him for a password. I've never seen this.
dss-dr93la01:~ # who tstaffor pts/4 Nov 4 10:08 (172.20.11.82) dss-dr93la01:~ # w 13:13:49 up 6 days, 4:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 USER TTY LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT tstaffor pts/4 10:08 0.00s 0.14s 0.01s sshd: tstafford [priv] dss-dr93la01:~ # su - dss-dr93la01:~ # whoami root dss-dr93la01:~ #
This tells me root doesn't have a password. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*