[TriLUG] Mandrake root login problem

Brian Ray Plummer gte223j at mail.gatech.edu
Thu Sep 25 16:14:16 EDT 2003


You are correct!!!! It is generally considered more secure to su to root
than allow someone to login in as root from the get go.  Someone would
have to compromise a user account to become root instead of being able to
log in as root.


Brian Ray Plummer
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: gte223j at prism.gatech.edu

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Daniel Monjar wrote:

> I just installed a new Mandrake 9.1 box... during setup I chose the
> 'Higher' security setting (where 1 is least security and 4 is most I picked
> 3).
>
> It won't let me login as root from the console.  I can login as a normal
> user and 'su' to root but I can't login to root directly.  I've never seen
> this before.  I'm assuming it is part of picking 3, correct?
>
> --
> Daniel Monjar
> Manager, Technical Services
> bioMérieux, Inc.
> Durham, NC US
>




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