Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:11:22
Message-Id: 20070914135421.92eab952.hilse@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... by Philip Webb
1 Hi,
2
3 On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:07:02 -0400 Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>
4 wrote:
5
6 > 070913 Daevid Vincent wrote:
7 > > I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6])
8 > > or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine.
9 > > It's only the physical console that doesn't.
10 >
11 > There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins,
12 > so that mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords:
13 > have a look in such places as /etc/login* & /etc/security/* .
14 > Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help.
15
16 /etc/pam.d if using PAM. Special attention to the nullok option to
17 pam_unix. Also see the man page for pam_unix. Exceptionally stupid idea
18 to do this but since the OP insists... (Free tip: sudo is better in most
19 cases)
20
21 -hwh
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