su problem

[Oliver Fromme]

Damien Fleuriot <ml at my.gd> wrote:
 > Ok so, I've read all the replies so far and I'm a bit perplexed.
 > 
 > Sami, before you drive 3 hours to and 3 hours fro, kindly log in as sody
 > over SSH, then try "login" to connect *locally* as the root user.

That won't work.  Unless you've disabled the "securetty" check
in /etc/pam.d/login, but it is there for a reason.

Best regards
   Oliver


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