Re: authentication failure
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:09, Paul Johnson wrote:
> semgogo sem wrote in Article <[🔎] BAY23-F203F756D1E7B9CC289B272B47D0@phx.gbl>
>
> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> > Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction...
> >
> > Using SSH , I cannot log in using root - I get 'acccess denied'.
>
> Never log in as root.
>
> > I can log in using a second account I have set up, however when I try su
> > - root (and give root password) it fails and reports 'su: authentication
> > failure sorry'.
>
> Use your root password on the Password: prompt su gives you.
A question Paul. On an earlier post the OP said that he had logged in as user,
then using su had mistyped the root password 5 times. Is there a way that SSH
could lock you out completely from su'ing to root, if you had made multiple
typos on the root password?
Nigel.
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