not able to login as root

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jun 02, 2007, Keith Antoine wrote:
>I have a copy that I installed last week of Mandriva 2007 PowerPack+.
>I want to login and do some alterations in root. so I cut the auto login out 
>and rebooted only when I put in root as login and root password it told
>me that there wer no root login available ?????????????????????
>
>Is it now impossible or can I work around this, looks like I might have to go
>to another Distro if not.

Can you do ``sudo bash'' to get a root shell?

It's been at least five years since I looked at Mandriva so can't
say anything specific about their configuration.

On Mac OS X, Apple really doesn't want people to login as root,
but ``sudo bash'' or ``sudo passwd root'' to set a password for
the root user solves that problem.  Once a root password has been
set then normal root logins or ssh to the system as root does the
trick assuming that one has configured sshd_config to allow root.

Bill
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