Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
- Subject: Re: passwd in x11 and login appearance
- From: Joerg Mertins <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:14:57 +0100 (CET)
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Eric Dahlman wrote:
On Dec 1, 2004, at 2:49 PM, Joerg Mertins wrote:
This seems quite strange: I use 10.2.8 and XDarwin 1.1.1.1 and wanted to
change my accounts password via command line in x11 bash window, using the
command "sudo passwd". That did not succeed but I remembered system
preferences in aquas main menu and everything worked fine.
Using sudo to run passwd would run it as root and not the user so unless you
included the flags to set the password for you as the specific user you
actually created a password for root. I think that may be the case as one of
the side effects of enabling the root account a change in the login screen
IIRC.
Thanks for the hint, Eric.
Thats exactly what happened. I can login as root now. I am not sure yet if
thats just a user called root or actually a real root (with all root
rights). Its not in the home directory but in a whole new separate tree
starting at /private and containing among other stuff
/private/var/root/...
I dont like that very much, but I have some scruples attempting to delete
a root user. However, it may just sit there if it doesnt mean an
additional security threat. I cannot deal with that user via apples
preferences (maybe because its in that new tree), so what do I have to
make sure to prevent logins from other machines etc?
the reason I orininally did passwd with sudo was, that whenever I
administrate the system I am beeing asked for it, too, imagining that it
was somehow used to become a "hidden" root...
Thanks for your advice,
Joe
You can verify this by trying to log in as root to see if it works.
Unfortunately, I cannot tell you how to re-disable the root login, but a bit
of googling would most likely turn it up.
-Eric
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