Re: Root password changed

Hi,

This may be too simplistic of an answer, but it actually happened here. We are an ISP, and one of my employees went to change an users password while she was su'ed to root, but she neglected to specify the customers username. Instead she typed passwd then the new password. Sure enough, she changed the root password instead of the customers password. Could you have been changing a user password on the system and inadvertantly have changed the root password instead?

Lisa Casey
Webmaster & SysAdmin
Netlink 2000, Inc.
lisa@jellico.net

• Original Message ----- From: "RCS" <rcs@flashwave.com> To: <incidents@securityfocus.com> Sent: Friday, January 03, 2003 11:01 PM Subject: Root password changed

> I have no idea how the root password on my FreeBSD 4.0 system was =

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