not able to login as root

[Keith Antoine]

Bill Campbell wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Unsure about 'sudo bash', will try that, but I did create a root login 
at install, as it asks for this on suing.
The whole point is I cannot configure a damd thing.

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