root password suits all

Michael James michael at james.st
Tue Apr 1 14:59:30 EST 2003


On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 02:48 pm, Benjamin Stewart wrote:
> Why dont you just login as root and then 
> su <username>

su - <username>				works
ssh -l <username> localhost	doesn't, not even for them.

It's not just a mistyped password either or they'd get 3 chances.

Also I need to test FTP, samba, web authentication etc.

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