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From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Surprise null root password
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It turns out all seven hosts in my cluster report
a null password for root in /usr/src/etc/master.passwd:
root::0:0::0:0:Charlie &:/root:/bin/sh

Is that intentional?

Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska