wyrmzr wrote on Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:14:02AM -0600 : > > >>>failed, but when I su root, it takes my password fine. > > >>>Anyone explain this? > > >Higher security level. > > It would help if it warned somewhere that you can log in as root only in > > low security level. > > see /etc/securetty in another mail > yeah, it worked to set my security level to high, although I may put it back > to higher, if it will allow me to ssh in as regular user at the higher > setting. That's all I allow into my system at this point, anyway, so if it > keeps root from directly logging into my system remotely, but lets my regular > user(s) in, that's fine by me.
If you want to see what it is doing, open a terminal and run draksec
directly. Then you can see what services it disables, what permissions
it changes, and whatever else it does to affect security.
Blue skies... Todd
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Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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