not able to login as root

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 11:26 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

Sure I have... I disabled the snot out of it from the install. I've got
plenty of firewall without that darn thing. But, it was not enabled like
that from the get-go, during install. I believe you'd have to select
"paranoid" as a setup option to get that much restriction. I don't think
it would be considered "normal", unless you chose it. Ric 

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