You are correct!!!! It is generally considered more secure to su to root than allow someone to login in as root from the get go. Someone would have to compromise a user account to become root instead of being able to log in as root.
Brian Ray Plummer Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Daniel Monjar wrote: > I just installed a new Mandrake 9.1 box... during setup I chose the > 'Higher' security setting (where 1 is least security and 4 is most I picked > 3). > > It won't let me login as root from the console. I can login as a normal > user and 'su' to root but I can't login to root directly. I've never seen > this before. I'm assuming it is part of picking 3, correct? > > -- > Daniel Monjar > Manager, Technical Services > bioM�rieux, Inc. > Durham, NC US > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
