From: "Michael P. Gorse" <mgorse@WPI.EDU>
To: blinux-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: can't login from anything other than the console
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:26:15 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.980623132357.22083A-100000@ernie.WPI.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000001bd9e9b$df7a5de0$0f0962d1@chrispet>
At least on my system, a file called /etc/securetty determines which ttys
are allowed to login as root. If your dos box is connected to com1, you
can try logging in as root from the console and typing
echo /dev/ttyS0 >> /etc/securetty
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|DO what you think is right, not what society expects of you.|
---------Michael Gorse / http://www.wpi.edu/~mgorse/ ---------
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Chris Peterson wrote:
> Hi blinuxers!
>
> Perhaps someone can give me some advice here. I just installed Redhat 5.0
> and everything works great. I have the dumb terminal connection to my dos
> machine working properly and I get a login prompt and my keystrokes are
> getting from the dos box to the linux box the right way up and so on. So
> here's my problem...
>
> >From the console login prompt I can login as root and everything is just
> fine except that I can't do much without speech and I'm not up to the point
> where I'm ready to install emacspeak yet. When I try to login from the dos
> terminal, though, I always get a "login incorrect" message. My other linux
> machine is a slackware machine and I've never encountered this before. Any
> ideas?
>
> thanks,
> Chris
>
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