Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-18 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 17 mar 14, 08:43:24, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 17/03/14 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > >> > >> In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of > >> disabling root login (there are likely other methods) > > > > AFAIK th

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-16 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 17/03/14 04:44, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: >> >> In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of >> disabling root login (there are likely other methods) > > AFAIK the installer uses 'passswd -l'. > > Kind regards, Andrei > Tha

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-16 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 16 mar 14, 01:24:03, Scott Ferguson wrote: > > In the spirit of investigation I tried testing a few methods of > disabling root login (there are likely other methods) AFAIK the installer uses 'passswd -l'. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discuss

Re: When fogetting assigned login name rather than password (and disabling root login)

2014-03-15 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 15/03/14 23:38, Tom Furie wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 12:21:27PM +, Tom Furie wrote: > >> It does seem much more likely that Scott is correct and root >> logins are only disabled at the graphical login - as Scott says, >> that is the default configuration - in which case Richard should