sct@alpha.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink) (09/01/89)
I received a lot of responses to my original questions concerning the root password location on the NeXt computer and would like to thank those who responded. Let met restate the problem/issue: I must type a password when I type 'su' and when I login as 'root'. The problem is that the passwd file has no encrypted password entry for 'root'. It does have encrypted passwords for all the users. What I want to know is: where is the encrypted password kept for root? The other problem I think has already been answered. I can login as 'root' from the console but when I try to telnet from another workstation and login as root I can't do it. Someone suggested that there is a security feature that only allows logins for root to occur at certain terminals (in this case the console). That makes sense. Now if someone can tell me what happened to the encrypted root password in the 'passwd' file my curiosity will be satisfied.