Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-21 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 20 November 2015 08:47:25 Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data > > > theft. Following the above steps,

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 20 November 2015 08:47:25 Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data > > theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the > > device by > > What a

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Himanshu Shekhar a écrit : > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root > access and do whatever one wants to do

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by What above steps? The context is lost! :( -- "If you're not careful, the new

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Linux-Fan
[Thu, 19 Nov 2015 09:20:03 -0500] Dan Ritter wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to > > data theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical > > access to the device by any means (which

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Eero Volotinen
How about encrypting disks with luks? Eero 19.11.2015 3.32 ip. "Himanshu Shekhar" kirjoitti: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobi

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 07:01:41PM +0530, Himanshu Shekhar wrote: > This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. > Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by > any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root >

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-19 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
This reminds of an outcome that makes your system vulnerable to data theft. Following the above steps, anyone having physical access to the device by any means (which is more likely in case of mobile devices), could gain root access and do whatever one wants to do with the system as well as the dat

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-18 Thread Brian
On Thu 19 Nov 2015 at 00:12:31 +0100, Dan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > > > >> If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root > >> account gets locked? > > > > No. > > > >> I was in a hurry and i

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-18 Thread Dan
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > >> If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root >> account gets locked? > > No. > >> I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times >> and now I can not

Re: Root account blocked

2015-11-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote: > If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root > account gets locked? No. > I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times > and now I can not log as root. > > I think that I'm using the right passwo

Root account blocked

2015-11-18 Thread Dan
Hi, If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root account gets locked? I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times and now I can not log as root. I think that I'm using the right password (although I can not be sure 100%). I checked the modificati