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From: Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>
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Subject: Re: can't login from anything other than the console
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In order to be able to log in as root from any  device other than the
console, you need to add that device to the securetty file.  Just add
/dev/ttys0 (or whatever it is you're logging from) to that file, and
you'll be fine.