Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > Thanks, but with those lines removed I end up with all logins failing > automatically and no request for a password. This may be something that > changed sometime between stable and unstable--I used to use a similar > trick to allo

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 08:06:03 -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: | On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: | > best way is to: | > edit /etc/pam.d/login | > comment out the line | > #auth required pam_unix.so nullok | > by placing a "#" at the beginning. | > | > T

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 03:58:41PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > > is > > > > root:

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 12:34:37PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: | On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:41:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: | > Please don't reply to something on-topic in private. Sending back to | > the list... | | I thought it was getting a little off-topic, but OK. | | > On Tue, Oct 14,

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:41:12AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Please don't reply to something on-topic in private. Sending back to > the list... I thought it was getting a little off-topic, but OK. > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:37:50AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 0

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Please don't reply to something on-topic in private. Sending back to the list... On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:37:50AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:06:03AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > password; what do I need to do? Get a clue! This is *NOT* something you ever want to do! - -- .''`. Paul Joh

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:30:32PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > is > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > > I thought the empty password field would do th

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* J. Bruce Fields ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031012 19:34]: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 02:24:54PM +0200, Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > >> "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > >> > passwo

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: >> "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a >> > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file >> > is >> >

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: > "J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > > is > > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread Sacha Chua
"J. Bruce Fields" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a > password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file > is > root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash > I thought the empty password field would do the job, but apparently no

passwordless root login

2003-10-12 Thread J. Bruce Fields
I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file is root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash I thought the empty password field would do the job, but apparently not. There is no /etc/shadow file. --Bruce Fields --