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From: sct@alpha.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: su password
Keywords: root password su
Message-ID: <958@alpha.lanl.gov>
Date: 30 Aug 89 01:02:57 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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  I have noticed on our NeXt workstation that the passwd entry for root
is something like:  root::0:...etc...

  Now normally one would think that root has no password but this is not
the case.  When I type 'su' I must enter the root password to become
super-user.  The other puzzler is that when I try to login as root the
password no longer works.  Does anyone know what's going on here?  Also,
where is the encrypted root password kept?

Steve Tenbrink
sct@lanl.gov