Are you saying that you can't log in as root from a console (i.e. not just a
X terminal window)? This is a setting that is designed to enhance security. A
cracker can do the most damage to a system if they gain root access. This
setup forces the cracker to first gain access to a user account and then try
to su to root. In other words, the cracker has to break through two
login/password combinations before they have root access.
The Medium security setting in Mandrake does not have this feature, however.
Have you run any kind of distro hardening routine on your system, like
InteractiveBastille? I know that InteractiveBastille does this by default.
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001 19:47, Robert MacLean wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have my machine startup to Xwindows, and I get that login screen. I
> have user setup and there is also the root user. I can log in fine
> with both of them in XWindows. If I log in as the user and in the
> console type su, and the root password it logins in fine.
> The problem is when i shutdown xwindows to console, I get the console
> login. I can log in fine with my username and password, by the root
> username and password won't let me login.
> Security is set to medium. This is on LM8.
>
> Thank you.
> Robert MacLean
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