Re: [Cooker] paranoia mode
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
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.
