cant login from terminal

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geethalakshmi
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cant login from terminal

Post by geethalakshmi »

Hi,
I cant login as a super user or root user in terminal.. why?
i have opened a terminal,
typed login
it asks for password, i typed
then it says login incorrect..

I dont want to use su to login as a root user, if i do so it takes me the same user because my password for root user ans local user are same.

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Ollie Saunders
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Re: cant login from terminal

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Perhaps your distro doesn't allow it. You can use the sudo command to temporarily execute commands as the super-user this is usually sufficient.
candyshop
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Re: cant login from terminal

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what distro are you using ?
SSH login or local terminal login ?
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