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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Superuser Post 302911910 by bakunin on Monday 4th of August 2014 12:12:13 PM
Old 08-04-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by pinklemon
What was ment by this remark?
On some systems the direct login of the root user is prohibited as a security measure. To become root one would have to log on as normal user and only then use

Code:
su - root

or something similar ("sudo", ...) to become root. It might be that your system is configured this way. You can usually see this in the "/etc/passwd" file where user accounts not allowed to log in directly have a certain field marked. For instance (from an AIX system, notice the "!"/"*" after the users name):

Code:
root:!:0:0::/:/usr/bin/ksh
daemon:!:1:1::/etc:
bakunin:*:999:1:bakunins normal user:/home/bakunin:/usr/bin/ksh

The users "root" and "daemon" are not allowed to log in ("!" in the second field), whereas "bakunin" is allowed to log in ("*" in the second field).

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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NAME
Graphics::Primitive::Insets - Space between things DESCRIPTION
Graphics::Primitive::Insets represents the amount of space that surrounds something. This object can be used to represent either padding or margins (in the CSS sense, one being inside the bounding box, the other being outside) SYNOPSIS
use Graphics::Primitive::Insets; my $insets = Graphics::Primitive::Insets->new({ top => 5, bottom => 5, left => 5, right => 5 }); METHODS
Constructor new Creates a new Graphics::Primitive::Insets. Instance Methods as_array Return these insets as an array in the form of top, right, bottom and left. bottom Set/Get the inset from the bottom. equal_to Determine if these Insets are equal to another. left Set/Get the inset from the left. right Set/Get the inset from the right. top Set/Get the inset from the top. zero Sets all the insets (top, left, bottom, right) to 0. AUTHOR
Cory Watson, "<gphat@cpan.org>" SEE ALSO
perl(1) COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2008-2010 by Cory G Watson. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2010-08-21 Graphics::Primitive::Insets(3pm)
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