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On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: |
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> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote: |
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> > Originally, I ran into some trouble when I allowed the default init |
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> > routine to run, because it froze on 'starting local'. I eventually |
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> > discovered that was because my main serial device should be /dev/ttyAM0 |
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> > instead of /dev/ttyS1 in /etc/inittab. I fixed that, and then found that |
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> > I couldn't login as root, even after adjusting /etc/password to |
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> You are talking about logging in via serial console, right? |
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> I may be completely on the wrong track here, but you may need to add |
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> ttyAM0 to /etc/securetty to be able to log in as root. |
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wonder if it'd be worthwhile to have shadow's login whine if you give correct |
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user/pass for root but securetty is blocking you ... |
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-mike |
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