Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password
On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 12:38:48 +0000
Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> wrote:
> Having gone back to re-read Richard's original post, he does state
> that he was bringing up an install without GUI. Which poses the
> question "why not just log in as root to get the user name?" unless
> root logins are disabled, which leads us back to how he has a root
> password in that case.
One possible explanation might be that he disabled root login by having
a blank /etc/securetty file, which disallows root login on a tty, but
you still have a root account you can su to after logging in as a
regular user.
SteveT
Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/
Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
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