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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: login as root
Date: 2 Jun 1995 21:57:14 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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Message-ID: <3qo1fq$aq7@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <3q8c44$9rf@detroit.freenet.org>
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ac381@detroit.freenet.org (Michael Marson) wrote:
] 2) I have been unable to determine the default password for "su", which
] is what BSD reports I must login as when I try to login as "root".
] All seemingly obvious passwords (<enter>, "1", "123", etc) have failed.
I once again lobby for changing the root login message from
"Don't login as root, use su instead!"
to
"Don't login as root, login as yourself and type 'su' instead!"
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.