Re: disabling root login (was: Giving up on Fedora 9)

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 14:37 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: 
> Bill Bogstad wrote: 
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Kent Borg <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> >> David Kramer wrote: 
> >>> and you can't log in as root, you use sudo instead (by default). 
> >> I frequently do "sudo bash" and go from there.  The only time I miss a 
> >> root login is when I want to scp something as root. 
> > 
> > It's trivially easy to turn root login back on.  Just give root a 
> > password (and enable root login in your sshd config file) and 
> > you should be golden.  I generally use sudo if I'm already on the 
> > machine in question, but if I'm accessing a *buntu machine remotely 
> > I tend to ssh directly to root. 
> > 
> > Bill Bogstad 
> 
> Just wondering something about disabling root login, btw: 
> 
> I often drop down to single-user mode when I'm performing things like 
> kernel upgrades.  Entering single-mode prompts me for the root password, 
> and presumably logs me in as root. 
> 
> All of which begs the question:  is it possible to enter single-user 
> mode when you've got a locked root account?