[ale] Goofed up root login via console, oops!

Joe Knapka jknapka at charter.net
Tue Nov 23 13:39:48 EST 1999


Is the console listed in /etc/securetty?

"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> locally when I do happen to be on site.) I can log in locally as another user,
> but can NOT 'su -' to 'root' from the console, only remotely.
> 
> Totally confused? Good, so am I!
> 
> - Gary
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