not able to login as root

Net Llama! netllama
Mon Jun 4 09:26:52 PDT 2007


On Sun, 3 Jun 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 09:24 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
>>> That sure sounds past crazy... nut gone crazy. There's always ubuntu or
>>> Fedora 7. You're welcome to join us in the rpm world. :) Ric
>>
>> Mandriva does use RPMs, Ubuntu does not.  Also, Fedora could be
>> equivalently (mis)configured with SELinux to prevent root logins.  Ubuntu
>> doesn't allow logins via GDM as root either.
>>
>> So Ric, whatever are you talking about?
>
> I've never seen the root account disabled from the get-go before. Ever.

Then clearly you've not done anything with SELinux ACLs.


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