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DateSat, 15 Jul 2000 19:22:16 +0200
FromMartin Costabel <>
SubjectRe: devfs question
John Covici wrote:
>
> Hi. I was reading the readme in the 2.4.0-test2 kernel documentation
> tree for defs when I ran into the following mysterious passage
>
> /etc/securetty
> PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is supposed to be a flexible
> mechanism for providing better user authentication and access to
> services. Unfortunately, it's also fragile, complex and undocumented
> (check out RedHat 6.1, and probably other distributions as well). PAM
> has problems with symbolic links. Append the following lines to your
> /etc/securetty file:
>
> 1
> 2
> 3
> 4
> 5
> 6
> 7
> 8
>
> What does this mean since /etc/security is a directory and where
> shhould these lines go anyway?

Isn't that obsolete anyway? The devfs documentation does not always
follow the devfs API changes. In any case, if I want to login as root, I
have to put

vc/1
vc/2

and so on into /etc/securetty.

--
Martin

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