From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:13:43 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.oricom.de ([IPv6:::ffff:62.116.167.108]:33453 "EHLO oricom4.internetx.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:13:11 +0100 Received: from mycable.de (pD958CF2F.dip.t-dialin.net [217.88.207.47]) (authenticated bits=0) by oricom4.internetx.de (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9MFDH6Z031113 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:13:24 +0200 Message-ID: <3F969E7A.30600@mycable.de> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:12:58 +0200 From: Joerg Ritter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: de-de, de-at, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: root login References: <3F969106.5000807@mycable.de> In-Reply-To: <3F969106.5000807@mycable.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 3488 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: jr@mycable.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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 >> >> >> >> >> > >