From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 24 10:52:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E2670F for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:52:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Received: from feeder.usenet4all.se (1-1-1-38a.far.sth.bostream.se [82.182.32.53]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C222A1DBD for ; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:52:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kw.news4all.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by feeder.usenet4all.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id r3OAqpx8009255; Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:52:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bah@bananmonarki.se) Message-ID: <5177B95D.3060001@bananmonarki.se> Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:52:13 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130321 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Subject: Re: Diskless question References: <51779573.20207@bananmonarki.se> <20130424111255.eebe46907bba48917042007e@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20130424111255.eebe46907bba48917042007e@sohara.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:52:55 -0000 2013-04-24 12:12, Steve O'Hara-Smith skrev: > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:18:59 +0200 > Bernt Hansson wrote: > >> Hello list! >> >> I have set up a diskless machine with 8.3-stable and i as a user can log >> in, but when I try to log in as root it won't work. How to resolv that >> issue. I have tried with and without password but the computer said no. > > Are you logging in on the console or by ssh ? By default ssh does > not allow root login, it can be enabled but you should read up on the > security implications carefully before enabling it. I would expect console > login to work fine. I'm trying to login as root on the diskless machine. Console. > As a general rule it is better to use sudo or su rather than > logging in as root, although for a single user system this doesn't really > make much difference. > su does not "work" it sayes sorry.