Yesterday, I started yast from the start menu and I entered my root password by mistake and found out that it let me in anyway. I restarted yast and just hit a bunch of keys and it let me in again. It's like yast has no password at all.

I then tested starting yast from the command line and hit a bunch of keys and the authentication failed and then entered my real password and it accepted.

Today, I started yast from start menu again, and the password authentication is back to normal. It seems to work fine again.

I used rkhunter but it found nothing.

I am concerned about this cause someone could have turned my firewall off and did other things that I won't notice.

What does all this mean? Did something happen to yast that I should be concerned about? I hope no one got in and took off the password for a while and put it back in. Thanks

-bhert

I don't understand, isn't the root password supposed to allow YaST to open?

yes, the root password allowed me to open yast as well as any password.
That was what I was concerned about.

I was saying about yast accepting any password a couple of days ago. Now it seemed fine. Now it allows only root password.

What I was concerned is that yast changed the password rules for a while.

-bhert

I don't doubt you, its something I haven't heard of, I would think everything is probably fine or you would have problems by now. If I were you I think I would check it everyday or two for a while to make sure the same situation doesn't occur again.