Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:22:16 +0200 | | From | Martin Costabel <> | | Subject | Re: devfs question |
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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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