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From: sct@alpha.lanl.gov (Stephen Tenbrink)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: su password
Keywords: passwd encrypted
Message-ID: <960@alpha.lanl.gov>
Date: 1 Sep 89 14:11:52 GMT
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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I'm puzzled.  We have a NeXt system with a password for 'root'.  I must
enter a password when I type 'su' and when I login as 'root'.  The problem
is that the passwd file has no encrypted password entry for 'root'.  It
does have encrypted passwords for all the users.  What I want to know is:
where is the encrypted password kept for root?

Another problem is that I can login as 'root' from the console but when
I try to telnet from another workstation and login as root I can't do it. 
Someone suggested that there is a security feature that only allows logins
for root to occur at certain terminals (in this case the console). 
Is that true?