On 15/03/14 22:33, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:22:10PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> On Sat, 2014-03-15 at 05:45 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> If another OS had not been available but I knew the root >>> password, is there some way I could have gained access as >>> root? >> >> If you remember the root password, than I don't understand your >> problem. > > My first instinct would be to suppose that he's disabled root > logins.
For the GUI perhaps - that's the default for the DE's I'm familiar with - but it in no way prohibits logins to a vconsole. And AFAIK you can simply kill the X server and login to the console that way. > > Cheers, Tom > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
