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

Gary S. Mackay Gary at edisoninfo.com
Tue Nov 23 14:14:28 EST 1999


Yep! Don't know if this helps any, but the log file shows "failed login 1 from
(NULl) for root, Authentication failure".

- Gary

Joe Knapka wrote:
> 
> 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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> 
> -- Joe Knapka
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