Storming the Bastille!!!
It's one of those days
I have managed to log myself out of X windows. On my Redhat 8 box after I have installed Bastille. I can log into the box as root via SSH but not at the local console. I can also log at the console as another users but not as root Please help G |
Well the whole purpose to my understanding bastille is to secure your machine. I'm not totally familiar with it but I'd check your /etc/securetty file to see if it modified it to keep root from local login from a console.
Though its a good idea to never login as root, but su or setup sudo if you want to keep your machine secure. Also I would advise to disable root login from remotely using ssh, it might be secure and encrypted but there are always vulnerabilities. You should make a habit of logging in remotely as a regular user, then su to root when needed. |
Thanks for our advice
It turned out to be (my stupidity) When you run Bastille it creates a log file under /var/log/Bastille/action-log With all the amendments it makes to your system, there is a section that Appended a file /etc/bastille-no-login with root I edited bastille-no-login and took out root and low and behold I can Now login again as root at the console. my faith is restored Bastille, nice util !!! :) G |
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