Re: Root account blocked
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 20:05:38 +0100, Dan wrote:
> If a wrong password is used many times to log as root, does the root
> account gets locked?
No.
> I was in a hurry and introduced a wrong password for root a few times
> and now I can not log as root.
>
> I think that I'm using the right password (although I can not be sure
> 100%). I checked the modification date of the files passwd and shawdow
> and it seems that the root password has not been modified. I guess
> that if somebody changed the password I should see it in the date of
> shadow.
Who is this "someone"? Have you given him access to your machine?
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