well you don't "log in" as root --
you log in as a user account and su to get root.
as to the 2nd question not sure
Alan
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Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 8:59 AM
To: 'newbielinux-mandrakecom'
Subject: [newbie] Security Question and SCSI Tape Utilities
Hi All,
As I'm sure you all know I'm fairly new to Linux and I have a couple of
simple questions.
First - I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on a compaq ML370 using the high
security option. The only thing I cannot do is telnet to the server from a
different machine and log in as root, it establishes connection, but I
cannot log in as root. I've checked /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
and they allow everything in (otherwise I could not connect...), and I've
looked at the files in /etc/security and they seem to be fine. All of the
lines in /etc/security/access.conf are commented out, so I assume that root
should be allowed to telnet in. I must be missing something very basic!
Second - the above server is used as a device server for a tape drive for
our backup system, but when I installed Mandrake 7.1 the SCSI tape utilities
(mt, stinint...) were not installed and nor were the man pages. Does
anybody know what rpm they're in?
Thanks in advance!
Alan
