Fedora Security :: Need To Login As Root User

Sep 8, 2009

I have a problem, I have installed Fedora 11. And i need to login as root user.
How to do so?

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Security :: Doesn't Access Root Passward From User Login

Nov 26, 2009

I get the problem to acess root password when i am in user login, means wahen i am in user login and want to install software from terminal then he asked root password, when i supplied root password but he give me login incorrect.

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Fedora :: Cannot Login Other Than Root User

Jun 17, 2011

Well I did something pretty stupid and now I can't log in with my user other than the root user. Basically, I wanted to change my username and so I when to the admin > user & accounts - and selected the account I wanted to change. Anyway I did that and then logged out. Since then all I get when I reseted is a spinning mouse ball and a black screen. I can get into the shell prompt - but I'm not sure how I'd go about fixing this issue I created. At the moment I'm logged in the shell with root, and if I type 'id' I can see my old username, but I think the links behind it are broken.

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Fedora :: Can't Login As Root Or Any Other User After Hw Upgrade?

Dec 18, 2009

I've recently upgraded my hardware. Now, the system boots perfectly fine, but I can't login to the tty as root or any other user. Infact yes, I can login, but as soon as it shows Last Login, it exits and then I'm back to a login prompt. I've successfully booted into single user mode, and changed all the passwords, but still it fails. X doesn't start, although I think it's due to the old xorg.conf having the wrong driver.

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Fedora :: Unable To Login As Root Or Any Other User?

Jul 6, 2010

After upgrading FEdora 13, user ravi was added. Then after few days neel was added. Both of the users were already existing. So when attempting login to neel, we found that every file is owned by ravi. So we did$chown -R neel:neel But after that problem started and when we rebooted the machin, there were no list of users on login screen. (then I connected to that comp remotely, it worked, but somehow I was not able to switch to root) It says incorrect password (though I new it very well). So I went to maintenance mode and changed the root password, and rebooted. Still problem persists.Now I am not able to login as root (from anywhere, login screen , terminal, remote)No list of usernames on login screen ( but i can choose, other and type login-password)

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Unable To Login As Root User In F10?

Jan 14, 2010

I have just upgraded my laptop from F8 to F10, and I am unable to login to the system as root user.At login, it provides 2 options, one is the user I created and another called 'other'.On selecting 'other' and providing uid/passwd as 'root/<rootpassword>, it says "Unable to Authenticate User"!!However, when I tried to access my windows partition, it happily accepted the root password

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Fedora Security :: Run Auditd As Non-root User?

Nov 2, 2009

Can the audit daemon (auditd) be run by a non-root user? I'd like to create a special user who only run the audit daemon. Is that possible?

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Fedora X86/64bit :: Cant Login As Root User Even Using Sudu Su?

Apr 7, 2010

I have fedora 12 installed in my system.But i cant login into it as root user even using 'sudo su'what to do?Each time i am having the following problem

[sujal@hclhome ~]$ sudo su
[sudo] password for sujal:
sujal is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Disable All User Console Login Except Root?

Jun 29, 2010

my linux system doesn't have X only console login possible. i would like to deny all user to login from any sources, local machine, remote console (putty, winscp) etc. except root.

i've found something about /etc/security/access.conf and i've put:

+ : root : ALL
- : ALL : ALL

but still users other then root are able to login (via putty for example).

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Fedora Security :: How To Disable Root And User Password

Jan 12, 2009

It seem like unix abit annoying every time you log in you need to password can I disable it

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Fedora Security :: Disable Remote Root Login?

Apr 4, 2009

Remote root login is enabled. How do I disable this

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Fedora Security :: Root Login Via Ssh 12 Password Authentication?

Jan 27, 2010

Can't seem to do it, wondering if anyone knows how? Normally there's something in sshd_config that can be switched to true or yes to allow root login but I can't see it in fedora 12.I can login via root at a terminal no problem, just not via ssh, I get access denied every time. Also, I need to login using password authentication.I've done: 227169 but that's just for GUI which I don't really need since I rarely ever log into the GUI.I have also searched through here and mostly only found info such as above, how to enable root login for GUI, or billions of posts about how logingin as root is bad but I cannotswer to my question.DISCLAIMER: Please do not reply to this thread if all you can contribute is the question of why I need root or to put some message telling me I can do everything using su, etc, etc. Please only contribute if you can answer my question. A: My machine and a valid quesiton. B: Spirit of Linux is open, not restrictive

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Fedora :: Ssh Public Key Login Doesn't Work As Root User

Dec 22, 2010

I've tried to ssh in as the root user w/o a password (RSA keys) but I've had no luck as the root user. I've tried the exact same commands with Debian 5 and Centos 5.5, without a problem. Fedora 13 and 14 won't work! I can only log in w/o a password as a normal user, never as the root user! It always asks for the password if I try as root. I've even tried copying Debian's and Centos's sshd_config file and restarting sshd, but it still won't work.

Code:

mkdir ~/.ssh ~username/.ssh
chmod 0700 ~/.ssh ~username/.ssh
echo "ssh-rsa AAAAB............Jw8V03loeZ username@thehostname" > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

[code]....

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Fedora Security :: Log Files Empty - System Does Not Allow Root To Login ?

Feb 2, 2010

For a month or so now, I have been enabling ssh and opening port 22. I cron'ed the start and stop commands to leave them open only a few hours a day. After a bit, I checked my logs to find that some IP or another was attempting to brute force my root account.

I took little real threat by the offense.

(1) my system does not allow root to login and

(2) it would cut them off sooner than later when my system issued the stop command.

fast forward

Today I log in to find that all of my log files, as viewed from the gnome log file viewer, were empty of entries from about noon yesterday and prior.

Though I haven't noticed anything at all out of the ordinary with my system, I would like to get more opinions on the matter. Would there be any conceivable way that this was an automatic system routine, a clean up action of something? Additionally, if I was indeed the victim of a hack, what can I do to further protect my system (keeping in mind that I do want to access my system via ssh from time to time)?

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Fedora Security :: Administrative Login In User Account?

Sep 25, 2009

I am a new Linux user and have a question about the administrative authentication. When I am logged in as a user and I need to do something that requires root privileges the little password window comes up and I enter the root password. My question is how long are the root privileges granted for?I noticed that a few minutes after finishing checking out the firewall configuration tool and closing the window that I was still able to re-enter the fire wall tool and other administrative tools. How do I log out of the root privileges without logging out and then back into my account?

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Red Hat / Fedora :: RHEL 4 Exceed Login Shows Display But Can't Log In As User, Only Root?

Jun 9, 2011

I've checked gdmsetup and there isn't anything that I can see that keeps my general users from getting in remotely. I can get the Gnome to login as root but not as a user. SSH from PuTTY works fine for all users. The error I get actually says that the username or password is incorrect - checked using SSH and it is fine.

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OpenSUSE Install :: Get Root Privileges On User Account Without Using Root Login?

Feb 5, 2011

i am having problems with privileges i have created a new user with my name, but i cant get root privileges on it. i need the same privileges as the root profile.

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General :: Root Logins Are Not Allowed \ When Try To Login As Root, After Logging Out As User, It Does Not Allow?

Dec 2, 2010

i just installed linux mandriva 2009. i set password for root and created a user account. when i try to login as root, after logging out as user, it does not allow me and gives the error "root logins are not allowed". even it does not show the root account. if i try to go to root from konsole terminal using su root, it allows to enter as a root but when i try to start the GUI with startx it gives error.not sure what to do and why i can't see my account in GUI mode

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Fedora Security :: Setting Up Server To Store User Login Information

Mar 18, 2010

I wanted to set up Computer Lab. loading Fedora 11 OS and one system acting as a Server to store Users(Student) Login Informations. When students do a programs, all programs (eg, C++ programs) files should be saved in the local fedora system but when login to the system, the login should be validate by a Server System.

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Ubuntu Security :: Security E-mails At Root Login?

Sep 8, 2010

Whenever I login as root, an e-mail with the subject "Security information" is sent outwhere the e-mail address for this message is configured? I need to change it (or perhaps disable it).

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Ubuntu Security :: Bad Login Protocols - Graphical Login For Gnome Sizes Itself To Accommodate A User's Exact Password Length

Dec 14, 2010

I'm seeing really bad user login format under a standard installation and am wondering why ubuntu does this as default. I have noticed that the graphical login for gnome sizes itself to accommodate a user's exact password length. This indicates to me that somewhere on the unencrypted part of a standard installation with user encryption contains at least some indication of the content of the password length which seems a security flaw even if not a complete hole, it majorly reduces the number of attempts a cracker would have to cycle through.

And that's assuming that *only* the length is contained. Furthermore it seems that it would be MUCH better to simply display the number of characters entered into the pw field and allowing the gui to expand itself from an fixed size as the field is filled out so the the user still receives visual feedback for entering characters. Either a simple character count display should be entered into the field or a 10 dot to new line so that one can visually quickly count the number enter by multiplying from a 10base graphical observation.

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Ubuntu :: How To Login As Root User

May 26, 2010

how i know am in root user or another user? how to login as root user? sudo passwd root when i typed in termninal am getting this error pa1 is not in the sudoers file.

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Software :: SSH Root Login From Different User?

May 21, 2009

I created a new user lets call it X. I disallowed the root login from SSH, so I login with X and after I call "#su root" command. But when I login that way, I can't use some commands like "service". I can access all the files, I can even change the sshd_config file but some commands say "not found". Do I need to get X to a group? Or make it some priveledges etc? What should I have to do to run this free of problems?

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Ubuntu Security :: Can Ssh Into Root But Not User

Apr 22, 2011

Having trouble adding a regular user with ssh access on Hardy 8.04. I can ssh into root, but not into the newly created regular user with the same ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Code:

sshd_config has:
AllowGroups sshlogin
AllowUsers user root

[code]....

what could be preventing ssh login to ~user? And yes I would like to disable root ssh access, but it would be nice to be able to ssh into user first

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Security :: Add Root Permissions To User ?

Jun 5, 2010

How do I add root permissions to my user account?

I want full permissions for all computers in my house, without having to get up and go to the other room and change permissions for the file, folder, drive, directory, computer, etc., then go back to the other room again.

I just created a partition, as THIS user, THIS machine, rebooted, and cannot create a folder on the partition I just created. UGH. No more of this stuff... I guess at the very least, I'll still have to log onto each machine for this?

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Security :: Run Su As A Non Privileged User To Log In As Root?

Aug 15, 2010

I am trying to run su as a non privileged user to log in as root. However, this only works when I make /etc/shadow world readable. I have /lib/security/unix_chkpwd as a setuid root executable

I use the following pam-file for su:

Code:
# Begin /etc/pam.d/su
auth sufficient pam_rootok.so
auth required pam_unix.so
account required pam_unix.so
session optional pam_mail.so

[Code]...

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Ubuntu Security :: 9.10 X64 Can't Login As Root

Aug 9, 2010

I've recently installed 64bit version of ubuntu 9.10 but the GDMsetup doesn't seem to be working as it was in 9.04 i mean to say when you type gdmsetup at console the login window pops up where i can check the check-box "Allow local administrator log in" under security tab. to enable login as root. since it is not working i've to type password every time when i install a package or create a folder in root directory or mount a drive which is quite irritating how can i login as root in gui mode etc... also is there some syntax which i can put into /etc/gdm/custom.conf so i can log in as root....

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Debian :: Can't Login As Either Root Or User Following Upgrade

Sep 24, 2015

Since upgrading my Debian/unstable amd64 installation a few days back I can no longer log in as either root or user, whether to SDDM, via the console, or via ssh. When trying with the console, I can see the login message flash briefly on the screen, before the console resets itself.

I can boot into recovery mode, and examine log files. I enabled systemd debug logging and, amid reams of messages, these seem the most pertinent:

Sep 25 02:24:43 cooler systemd[1]: Received SIGCHLD from PID 937 (login).
Sep 25 02:24:43 cooler systemd[1]: Child 937 (login) died (code=killed, status=6/ABRT)

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OpenSUSE :: Cannot Login To Mysql As User Other Than Root?

Feb 8, 2010

I cannot see what the problem is here. I have installed MySQL 5.1.36 via YaST on my openSUSE 11.2 (32-bit) system.I can log in as root. I can "create user MY_user identified by 'my_passwd';" and a new user is created. But I cannot log in to the database using that new user name. I keep getting the message:

Code:
> mysql -b -u MY_user -p
Enter password:

[code]....

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OpenSUSE :: When Login As Root Where Is The Other User Contents

Apr 14, 2011

I have two uesers on the syste - me (Adam) and the root. when I log in as root where is the admin user contents? in windows its under users. in suse it should be under users. but where?

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