Re: root login

[Joerg Ritter <jr@mycable.de>]

You have probably enabled secure tty.
Please check /etc/securetty and add /dev/ttys0 or /dev/tts/0 (for devfs).

/Joerg

Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH schrieb:
> Hmm, I remember that we had once a similar problem, but I can't remember 
> the reason
> nor the solution. It appeared that we where not able to login as root, 
> but user login was possible.
> Logged in as user I was allowed to 'su' to root.
> Perhaps this may be a hint, perhaps not, perhaps Bruno remembers the 
> solution???
> 
> Tiemo
> 
> David Kesselring wrote:
> 
>> I apologize for the many recent questions but I have another trivia
>> question for all of you. :-)
>> I have installed the RH7.3 miniport to a harddrive connected to a MIPS
>> Malta board. The kernel the comes with the port (2.4.18) works fine. I
>> then took the cvs code (2.4.22) for mips and built it for malta. The 
>> first
>> few builds worked ok (which means I could logon as root). Then I changed
>> something in the build process so that now the kernels which I build 
>> won't
>> allow me to logon as root. I've changed /etc/passwd to eliminate the root
>> pw. Does anyone know how a kernel can affect the login like this?
>> Thanks,
>>
>> David Kesselring
>> Atmel MMC
>> dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
>> 919-462-6587
>>
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