From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 3374 invoked from network); 23 Jun 1998 17:26:16 -0000 Received: from smtp.wpi.edu (root@130.215.24.62) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Jun 1998 17:26:16 -0000 Received: from ernie.WPI.EDU (mgorse@ernie.WPI.EDU [130.215.24.122]) by smtp.WPI.EDU (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id NAA30112 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:26:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 13:26:15 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael P. Gorse" To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: can't login from anything other than the console In-Reply-To: <000001bd9e9b$df7a5de0$0f0962d1@chrispet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: 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 -------------------------------------------------------------- |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 > > --- > Send your message for blinux-list to blinux-list@redhat.com > Blinux software archive at ftp://leb.net/pub/blinux > Blinux web page at http://leb.net/blinux > To unsubscribe send mail to blinux-list-request@redhat.com > with subject line: unsubscribe > >