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Re: Giving up on Fedora 9



 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 

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