Messages in this thread | | | From | "Khimenko Victor" <> | Date | Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:44:34 +0300 (MSK) | Subject | Re: devfs + xinit Authentication error |
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In <38BE74F8.45D64C14@idb.hist.no> Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no) wrote:
>> > There is a related problem which stops root logging in on >> > a virtual console. The solution was to add the last 8 >> > lines to /etc/securetty yielding: >> > tty1 >> > tty2 >> > tty3 >> > tty4 >> > tty5 >> > tty6 >> > tty7 >> > tty8 >> > 1 >> > 2 >> > 3 >> > 4 >> > 5 >> > 6 >> > 7 >> > 8 >> >> Don't do this !!! You just added first few telnet connections to allowed >> root consoles !!! If you can not fix linux-utils (two line fix) then use >> su or sudo ... >> HH> I added this to /etc/securetty HH> vc/1 HH> vc/2 HH> vc/3
HH> I can log in as root on my virtual consoles, and it still HH> is impossible for telnet connections.
You are very lucky then :-) It can not work with standard util-linux ...
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