Assigning ROOT a password

[David Fletcher]

At 16:09 28/04/2008, you wrote:

>No, it isn't a random password. The hash value for the password is set to
>an invalid value, which can not be generated by any password. Therefore
>the root password really is disabled.
>
>
>Nils

I just looked at the /etc/shadow file for a server that I run. The 
entry for root is identical to those for daemon, bin, sys etc and 
it's just sequences of numerical digits with a '*' character at the 
start, where the hash value is placed in the entry for the one user 
on this system.

Dave