Re: The Dangerous User

You're correct.. booting to runlevel 1 or 3 would allow you to set a password 
for the 'arklinux' user, which would then allow it to login.

On Monday 09 February 2004 05:09 pm, you wrote:
> Ok so Im wrong, I was informed that the accounts do indeed have the
> passwords disabled. I still believe however that It may have been fixable,
> in some other manner than redoing an entire install. Although a reinstall
> isnt that bad of a deal anyway I suppose, as long as you are able to
> backup what you want to keep in another location.
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 07:30:29 +0000 (UTC), uniQ
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As you may know when AL installs there are 2 users: root and arklinux.
> > Both are
> > disabled, but arklinux logs in automatically. The problem arises that a
> > user
> > (like me) will try to stop autologins for security or something. They
> > then try
> > to login and... UhO! no logins are enabled!
> >
> > My ideas is for Ark to alert the user, either on quitting the user
> > manager
> > program, the login configuration, or logging off that there are no
> > enabled users
> > (that is, it's impossible to login).
> >
> > It can be something like this:
> >
> > Warning!
> >
> > Ark Linux has no enabled users: if you logoff, you wont be able to log
> > back on
> > again. When you start Ark Linux, you are required to login as a user so
> > the
> > system knows who you are and can set up your desktop and other
> > personalized
> > stuff. If no users are enabled then then Ark Linux can't give anyone
> > access to
> > thier programs, files, or the network or Internet. To enable a user,
> > goto K >
> > whereever > whatever and (I don't know this, I'm used to the CLI).
> >
> > [OK]
> >
> > Thanks, my 1st Linux flavor was AL9 and my 1st install got sunk by doing
> > that.
> >
> >        -uniQ