On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, jht wrote:
> Hello ,
>
> I use win95's telnet connect to RedHat Linux (kernel 2.0.33).
> I can not login using the name 'root'(of course I give the right
> password), but I can login using another name(such as 'guest')
> and 'su' to root. Why? thanks!
There are good reasons not being able to do this, as noted in the
other answers. But if you really want to do this you can edit
/etc/securetty and add all the terminals you want to be able to
log into as root.
/Bjorn
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