Re: authentication failure

On Tuesday 13 March 2007 12:09, Paul Johnson wrote:
semgogo sem wrote in Article <BAY23-F203F756D1E7B9CC289B272B47D0@xxxxxxx>

posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction...

Using SSH , I cannot log in using root - I get 'acccess denied'.

Never log in as root.

I can log in using a second account I have set up, however when I try su
- root (and give root password) it fails and reports 'su: authentication
failure sorry'.

Use your root password on the Password: prompt su gives you.

A question Paul. On an earlier post the OP said that he had logged in as user,
then using su had mistyped the root password 5 times. Is there a way that SSH
could lock you out completely from su'ing to root, if you had made multiple
typos on the root password?

Nigel.


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