I have a remote G5 xserve running 10.4.7 and ARD 3.1
We had a system power down during operation. (dont ask)
Then after the machine had came back up, trying to ARD onto
machine and login as "admin" would enter OK.
However when logging in as "root" completely crashes the system,
I can ping it but nothing else.
The local console shows just light blue screen with spinning
wheel. The system has to be power cycled to get it back up.
I could not see from the logs what was causing this.
So as the machine is only running a database and is bound/
connected to a windows2003 AD server. I rebuilt clean new boot
disks with 10.4.8, again with ARD 3.1. and copied the database back.
However, I still have the problem where the system will
completely crash when logging in as the "root" user on an ARD
session.
Has anyone seen this or can point me at some info to diagnose the
problem.
I've never even tried to use ARD to connect as root - and, I mean
the GUI, vs "Send Unix Command > Run command as: "
I'm curious: is there a specific reason you actually need to do
this ?
It actually allows you to run commands as root, rather than
connecting as the root user via the ARD GUI.
See the ARD guide, pp. 148-150
because (stupidly) retrospect backup software was installed as the
root user, and it is a gui only accessible app.
After the power issue mentioned, the backup failed and in trying to
sort that I had to get root access via ARD.
However without getting into right/wrong to login via a ARD session
as root, the problem remains that I kill the machine when doing
this where it was OK previously for years.
The logs do not appear to be showing anything of value, just normal
operation, then startup info when the machine power cycled.
Have you tried to reinstall the ARD client on the machine?
Erik
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Regards
Tony
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