On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Pete Soderling wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm running into a curious problem when I ssh into my Cube3 box. I want to disallow >root login to the ssh server which I can obviously do in the ssh conf file. > > The problem is that when I log into the system as an unpriveleged user and try to su >to root, I can't. The system says that the password is incorrect - even though it's >not. I can login to the system with the root account just fine so I know there's >nothing wrong with the account. > > Is this some type of security feature on the system? Honestly, I'd think it would be >more secure to login unpriveleged and then su ... >
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