Well if you set 'High Security' you should not be surprised if the security is 'high'. Logging in as root is dangerous... therefore it is not permitted. If you do not like it, then reduce the security level to something more lax or tune the security options as decribed here http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/msec.php
derek On Friday 07 June 2002 11:21 pm, Bill Davidson wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 2002 14:46:13 -0700 > > "Bill Winegarden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I rarely ask questions for others but this one has me stumped. My > > colleague running LM8.2 has a default (for his hardware) > > configuration. He created one user. Then, he went to the security > > configuration utility and set it to "high". Now he can't get in > > the gui login as root. His user account still works and he can > > 'su' in a terminal. This behaviour seems to have started just > > after he changed the security setting to high. My research found a > > possible solution in the /etc/security/access.conf with a missing > > entry like... > > -:ALL EXCEPT <list of accounts>:LOCAL > > > > Am I on the right track here? Has anyone come across this one before? > > Newbie archives don't return anything on this. > > > > tia, > > Bill W. > > My bet is that this is an msec thing. Try another security level. > > Bill
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