[SLE] Administrator root can't login
Hi,
From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
Hi there, are you trying to login as root from a remote machine or locally? If it's a remote access, ensure that root is allowed to login from a remote host - change that somewhere in YaST > Security... HTH, Martin Martin
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 March 2004 05:27 am, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
Are you trying to login on the local box, or over the network with XDMCP? Have you done anything with the security settings in YaST? You may want to look through the YaST -> System -> Editor for /etc/sysconfig Files and see if there is something set there. You can run YaST with Alt+F2 kdesu /sbin/yast2 you should then be prompted for a password for root. STH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAQxINwX61+IL0QsMRAutwAJ457HuuaOGB6ymQZUI8eDaqABqn1gCfedTt xxpsyLRoCt4y1FxIeG73hvA= =ehlk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Monday 01 March 2004 10:27, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
That's the correct behaviour - rather than logging in as root, you'd be better off doing as you've just suggested and use su or sudo. If you log in as root, then programmes you spawn all run with root privileges. This is a bad thing. You really can do everything you need to do quite easily while logged in as a user. Best Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Monday 01 March 2004 03:40, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 10:27, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
That's the correct behaviour -
Whether or not it is the recommended (by you) behaviour does not mean it is either Correct or Normal for SuSE 9. If you have knowledge that SuSE 9 does enforce this restriction then say so. If it is just your opinion that it _should_ be thusly restricted then say that. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 06:29, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 03:40, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 10:27, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
That's the correct behaviour -
Whether or not it is the recommended (by you) behaviour does not mean it is either Correct or Normal for SuSE 9.
If you have knowledge that SuSE 9 does enforce this restriction then say so.
If it is just your opinion that it _should_ be thusly restricted then say that.
'The correct behaviour' means exactly that, i.e. in my opinion the thing is working right and in a useful way. Everything I say is just my opinion. Even what I've just said. It's only my opinion that what I say is my opinion and I could be wrong, perhaps it's the case that everything I say actually has the force of a divine decree. We'd need to collect more empirical evidence, I suppose, but if I do find it to be the case I will start saying things like 'Poverty and hunger are now at an end' more often. However, if you prefer 'That's the correct behaviour, although it may not be the factory default', then there, I've said it. I adhere to my opinion that the OP is better served by my advice than by unmediated information telling him how to make kde root logins available. Root login to a graphical environment is fundamentally unsound. Cheers Fergus
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
Hi, I want to login in local. From when i install it to 3 day ago i haven't this problem, the root login in local with KDE, with the visual shell without problem. Ok it isn't correct to login with the root. But because now i can't do it and in the first time i can do it? I don' remember if i modify some wizard that can go up the security level (exist somethings of similar in the 9 version?). I've only made some test with Samba. Than the message is not an message error, but a baloon message that say "You can't use the root for login". How can disable this security option? Thank you. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Fergus Wilde [mailto:fwilde@chethams.org.uk] Inviato: martedì 2 marzo 2004 13.40 A: suse-linux-e@suse.com Oggetto: Re: [SLE] Administrator root can't login On Tuesday 02 March 2004 06:29, John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 03:40, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 01 March 2004 10:27, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, From 2 days i can't login with root on Suse 9. The password is right, but it say to me that the root can't use for login. So i can only login with a user and then use SU or insert the password when i use the visual tool administrator. How can change this setting? How can enable the root login?
Thank you.
That's the correct behaviour -
Whether or not it is the recommended (by you) behaviour does not mean it is either Correct or Normal for SuSE 9.
If you have knowledge that SuSE 9 does enforce this restriction then say so.
If it is just your opinion that it _should_ be thusly restricted then say that.
'The correct behaviour' means exactly that, i.e. in my opinion the thing is working right and in a useful way. Everything I say is just my opinion. Even what I've just said. It's only my opinion that what I say is my opinion and I could be wrong, perhaps it's the case that everything I say actually has the force of a divine decree. We'd need to collect more empirical evidence, I suppose, but if I do find it to be the case I will start saying things like 'Poverty and hunger are now at an end' more often. However, if you prefer 'That's the correct behaviour, although it may not be the factory default', then there, I've said it. I adhere to my opinion that the OP is better served by my advice than by unmediated information telling him how to make kde root logins available. Root login to a graphical environment is fundamentally unsound. Cheers Fergus
-- _____________________________________ John Andersen
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:35, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, I want to login in local. From when i install it to 3 day ago i haven't this problem, the root login in local with KDE, with the visual shell without problem. Ok it isn't correct to login with the root. But because now i can't do it and in the first time i can do it? I don' remember if i modify some wizard that can go up the security level (exist somethings of similar in the 9 version?). I've only made some test with Samba. Than the message is not an message error, but a baloon message that say "You can't use the root for login". How can disable this security option?
Is it possible that your /etc/securetty file is missing? If your terminal is not listed in that file then root can't log in from that terminal, (even if the terminal is the console) Alternativly if you have a file called /etc/nologin with root in it that is supposed to prevent loging as well. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
The securetty file is ok (is equal in another pc). The nologin file there isn't. I use the standard graphics login. The warning is 'Gli accessi come root non sono consentiti' in italian (the root login are not enable). You know some another configuration, or a security profile that stop the root login, With the user i haven't problem. Thank you. -----Messaggio originale----- Da: John Andersen [mailto:jsa@pen.homeip.net] Inviato: mercoledì 3 marzo 2004 9.27 A: suse-linux-e@suse.com Cc: M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe Oggetto: Re: [SLE] R: [SLE] Administrator root can't login On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:35, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
Hi, I want to login in local. From when i install it to 3 day ago i haven't this problem, the root login in local with KDE, with the visual shell without problem. Ok it isn't correct to login with the root. But because now i can't do it and in the first time i can do it? I don' remember if i modify some wizard that can go up the security level (exist somethings of similar in the 9 version?). I've only made some test with Samba. Than the message is not an message error, but a baloon message that say "You can't use the root for login". How can disable this security option?
Is it possible that your /etc/securetty file is missing? If your terminal is not listed in that file then root can't log in from that terminal, (even if the terminal is the console) Alternativly if you have a file called /etc/nologin with root in it that is supposed to prevent loging as well. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Sunday 07 March 2004 18.32, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
The securetty file is ok (is equal in another pc). The nologin file there isn't. I use the standard graphics login. The warning is 'Gli accessi come root non sono consentiti' in italian (the root login are not enable). You know some another configuration, or a security profile that stop the root login, With the user i haven't problem.
Edit /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, find the line with AllowRootLogin and set it to true and restart kdm with "rcxdm restart" But Fergus is right, it really is a very bad idea to run a full login as root. Better to run as a regular user, and just go to root for the few things that require it
Thank you. Now is all right. How can i set this option with the control center? -----Messaggio originale----- Da: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Inviato: domenica 7 marzo 2004 18.54 A: suse-linux-e@suse.com Oggetto: Re: [SLE] R: [SLE] Administrator root can't login On Sunday 07 March 2004 18.32, M.G. INFORMATICA di Melis Giuseppe wrote:
The securetty file is ok (is equal in another pc). The nologin file there isn't. I use the standard graphics login. The warning is 'Gli accessi come root non sono consentiti' in italian (the root login are not enable). You know some another configuration, or a security profile that stop the root login, With the user i haven't problem.
Edit /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc, find the line with AllowRootLogin and set it to true and restart kdm with "rcxdm restart" But Fergus is right, it really is a very bad idea to run a full login as root. Better to run as a regular user, and just go to root for the few things that require it -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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