'su' not asking for password since upgrade to 9.2

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ph0enix

I upgraded a system from 9.1 to 9.2 and it's not asking for a password when I type 'su' anymore. It just takes me straight into the su shell. My account is a member of the 'wheel' group. I created a test user who's not a 'wheel' member and logged in using it. When I typed 'su', it got me right in also. This is not a big issue on the system in question as I'm the only person using it but what happened and how do I fix it?

Thanks!
 
How exactly did you upgrade (using freebsd-update or using the source tree)? Because that could explain something.

Also; what happens if you logon as root using the console, does it ask for a password?
 
I'm an idiot. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! Here is the procedure I used:

Code: 
svn co https://svn0.us-east.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.2 /usr/src
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make buildkernel
make installkernel
mergemaster -p
make installworld
shutdown -r

I totally missed the fact that mergemaster -p replaced master.passwd so the root account had a blank password. I re-added other user accounts from a back-up copy of the file but forgot about root.

Thanks! :)
 
Edit your /etc/mergemaster.rc and add the files which should NEVER be replaced by the mergemaster script in this line:
Code: 
# Files to always avoid comparing
IGNORE_FILES='/etc/csh.cshrc /etc/login.conf /etc/master.passwd /etc/group \
/etc/rc.conf /etc/devfs.rules'
Files listed there will never be overwritten.
 
Beeblebrox said:
Edit your /etc/mergemaster.rc and add the files which should NEVER be replaced by the mergemaster script in this line:
Code: 
# Files to always avoid comparing
IGNORE_FILES='/etc/csh.cshrc /etc/login.conf /etc/master.passwd /etc/group \
/etc/rc.conf /etc/devfs.rules'
Files listed there will never be overwritten.
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Thanks for the info! As has been explained to me recently, there are times when you might want /etc/group or /etc/master.passwd compared by mergemaster - the recent additions of the 'unbound' and 'auditdistd' users, for example.
 
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