Re: root lock-out
Hello again all,
It seems that maybe I wasn't actually locked out (at least not permanently). I have just managed to log in as
root (first time I tried this time) and it told me (correctly) that I had three failed attempts previously.
Maybe there is a time delay before log in attempts are allowed again (although once it told me I had exceeded
the attempts allowed, I left it alone for an hour or so).
Think I'll just log in as a user from now on (unless root access is absolutely necessary...)
Nick.
>From: Nicholas Helps <n.r.helps@dundee.ac.uk>
>To: debian-68k@lists.debian.org
>Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 9:36:26 +0000
>Subject: root lock-out
>Reply-to: n.r.helps@dundee.ac.uk
>Priority normal
>
>Hello all,
>
>My keyboard is a little "dodgy" sometimes and this morning it played up as I was attempting to log in to my
>computer once it started up. I tried three times with what I know is the correct username and password for
>root (yes, I know you're not supposed to log in as root as a usual thing...) and on the last one it locked
>me
>out (maximum number (3) of tries exceeded). Yikes!! What do I do now??
>
>I can log in as a standard user, but it seems that root access has now been disabled. Any suggestions as to
>how to fix this? One thing that I could try (?) is to go back into the set-up program and put in a new set
>of
>passwords etc, but if there is a quicker way to sort it out, I would prefer this. I am using potato 2.2.20
>on
>a mac IIci.
>
>Feeling suitably humble,
>
>Nick.
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