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- From: hamdy@rzdspc15.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Safuat Hamdy)
- Subject: Re: SLS 0.99-2 more feedback and questions
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.125423.9832@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
- References: <1993Jan17.035542.428@victrola.sea.wa.us> <1993Jan19.162621.5185@mars.rmt.sub.org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:54:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.162621.5185@mars.rmt.sub.org>, arne@mars.rmt.sub.org (Arne Marschall) writes:
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- |> But I've got the problem that I can't login from a terminal as root.
- |> If type 'root <cr>' the answer is: 'Login incorrect'. I tried add two entrys in
- |> /etc/securetty: ttys1 and ttyS1, but that didn't help. (A terminal is attached
- |> to com2) Other users can do login on that port. Any Hints on that are very
- |> welcome.
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- I'd guess that /etc/securetty is obsolete. But there is an other *interesting* file, /etc/login.conf . Edit it
- and search for the definition of CONSOLES. It's comment reads that root can login only on terminals defined
- in this macro.
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- S. Hamdy
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- hamdy@rzdspc1.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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