RE: [Cooker] paranoia mode

[Geoffrey Lee]

if you don't like that ermake your securetty in /etc to


tty1
tty2
tty3
[...]


etc for those you want root access



cu Geoff



>
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:57:00PM -0700, Lorne Shantz wrote:
> > I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. ?? Installed 7.1 via expert
> > mode, and selected paranoia mode. set a 10 digit password, set up a user
> > and selected the same 10 digit password. Upon reboot, I can't gain
> > access to the server as root. I did get logged on as the user but of
> > course can't do a darned thing.
>
> Yes, this is a feature.  Log on as a user and su to root.  Experienced
> people say that you should never log on as root.  IMHO this is a bit
> paranoid; as long as you stay logged in for the bare minimum it isn't a
> problem.  Of course, a) the whole point of that level is to *be*
> paranoid, and
> b) I'm not a sysadmin (ie person paid to be paranoid).
>
> HTH  :)
>
> --
>   This is my sig.  I shall insert something witty here soon.
>

Re: [Cooker] paranoia mode

[Graham Percival]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 06:57:00PM -0700, Lorne Shantz wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. ?? Installed 7.1 via expert
> mode, and selected paranoia mode. set a 10 digit password, set up a user
> and selected the same 10 digit password. Upon reboot, I can't gain
> access to the server as root. I did get logged on as the user but of
> course can't do a darned thing. 

Yes, this is a feature.  Log on as a user and su to root.  Experienced
people say that you should never log on as root.  IMHO this is a bit
paranoid; as long as you stay logged in for the bare minimum it isn't a
problem.  Of course, a) the whole point of that level is to *be* paranoid, and
b) I'm not a sysadmin (ie person paid to be paranoid).

HTH  :)

-- 
  This is my sig.  I shall insert something witty here soon.

[Cooker] paranoia mode

[Lorne Shantz]

I'm not sure if this is a feature or a bug. ?? Installed 7.1 via expert
mode, and selected paranoia mode. set a 10 digit password, set up a user
and selected the same 10 digit password. Upon reboot, I can't gain
access to the server as root. I did get logged on as the user but of
course can't do a darned thing. 

I thought perhaps I made a mistake and logged on in single user mode,
made the root password the same in .shadow as the other user, and tried
again. ??? So can root not be used in paranoia? I have searched back
through over a month of messages here and see no reference to it. I've
not come across any faqs yet either. Thanks in advance.

Lorne