root login

root login

[David Kesselring]

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

Re: root login

[Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH]

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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Re: root login

[Joerg Ritter]

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
>>
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> 
> 

Re: root login

[David Kesselring]

I am able to login as a user and su to root. I still have not found the
reason for the problem. Well, for now I have something that works.
Thanks for the help.
David

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Tiemo Krueger       Tel:  +49 48 73 90 19 86
> mycable GmbH        Fax: +49 48 73 90 19 76
> Boeker Stieg 43
> D-24613 Aukrug      eMail: tk@mycable.de
>
> Public Kryptographic Key is available on request
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>

David Kesselring
Atmel MMC
dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
919-462-6587

Re: root login

[Gleb O. Raiko]

David Kesselring wrote:
> 
> I am able to login as a user and su to root. I still have not found the
> reason for the problem. Well, for now I have something that works.

Current date is too far from a file timestamp. Try back to the future.
:-)

Regrads,
Gleb.