Bryan Phinney wrote: <snip>
Yes, I understand the concept of not allowing root login and why, I just don't think that it applies to console logins. Having a standard account accessible remotely eases the barrier for someone to brute force hack the box, however, that usually doesn't apply to console since most hackers trolling for vulnerable machines don't have physical access to those machines.<snip>
For the record, I can think of a couple of ways to possibly accomplish denying root login from console, but for the life of me, can't imagine that doing so is a good idea. It is always possible to forget the password, lock the account, etc.
Yeah, right... I agree. Well, I can only say, set your system to paranoid and test it yourself. You cannot login as root. Maybe there are some higher reasons for security which I don't know. I only see the behaviour. Maybe we should ask some experts about it...
Forgetting passwords is natural, therefore you have the rescue disks ;)...
/g fengler
however.. I am still struggling with the strange dm behviour. I wish to use my user account and not root for writing my emails.....
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