Logins

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Sep 9 19:36:41 UTC 2005


Andrea Bencini wrote:
> I install FC4 with KDE; when I login with "root" and password I receive this
> message: "Root logins are not allowed".
> I can login only via ssh (root + psw).
> Can you help me?
> Thank
> Andrea
> 

This is bad manners. You should be logging in as an ordinary
user, and using "su -" or "sudo" to do your root activities.

It is good policy not to log in as root.

That's why the default is to disallow it.

Mike
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