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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root Password
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 00:26:35 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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Ollivier Robert wrote:
> But there is a small bug in 2.2.1 that makes login impossible when the root
> password is empty :-(

Unless you're loading 2.2.1 from CDROM, in which case it was fixed there
as an 11th hour patch.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.