Re: authentication failure
Nigel Henry wrote in Article <[🔎] 200703131341.56830.cave.dnb@tiscali.fr> posted
to gmane.linux.debian.user:
> 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?
Not by default that I'm aware of.
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