Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-28 Thread Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 11:50:42 PM, you wrote: Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Thread Robert Walker
Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 27 May 2004 21:22, Robert Walker wrote: Thursday, May 27, 2004, 8:31:22 PM, you wrote: On Thursday 27 May 2004 20:14, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login

Re: [newbie] Help can't get root access - am I buggered now??!! :-(

2004-05-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I was trying to increase the security of my Linux box (famous last words). I am running Mandrake 9.2 set for console login (run level 3). I was reading an article about stopping root logins for Red Hat Linux (v8.0)... Decided to follow the suggestions. This turned