On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: [...] > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' works between > wheezy and jessie. On both systems I have enabled 'root login' for my > initial tests. With wheezy I cannot login as root on the console, but > can login using ssh. On Jessie this is the reverse. I assume this is > deliberate. [...]
The ssh part: yes, and that's documented in the release notes: <https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#openssh>. The console part: I don't think so; this is probably a bug in wheezy. The last time I had that sort of problem, it was due to an omission from the file /etc/securetty (list of devices that root may log in through). But in wheezy that file does include hvc0. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? A. I don't know and I couldn't care less.
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