--- On Sat, 12/6/08, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: root in FC 10 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Date: Saturday, December 6, 2008, 12:04 AM > Gene Heskett wrote: > >>Disabling root login is a common security practice. > Sounds like it's > >>been disabled by default in F10. That's got to > be a good thing. > > > > Apparently so, but then the install doesn't add > the one user it asks > > you to define to the sudoers file, and to fix that > requires a reboot > > to single mode. > > No it doesn't. You run "su -c visudo" and > add the user you want. > > -- > Todd OpenPGP -> KeyID: 0xBEAF0CE3 | URL: > www.pobox.com/~tmz/pgp > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too > short to > be distracted by the opinions of others. > -- Russell Edson > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines disabling root access is what the root password is for I've been logging into root for 11.5 tears on Linux alone without problems It is dumb to make it impossible for everybody. I understand this disablement can be removed by doing something in pam.d or whatever it is. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
