Re: root login

[Joerg Ritter <jr@mycable.de>]

You have probably enabled secure tty.
Please check /etc/securetty and add /dev/ttys0 or /dev/tts/0 (for devfs).

/Joerg

Tiemo Krueger - mycable GmbH schrieb:
> Hmm, I remember that we had once a similar problem, but I can't remember 
> the reason
> nor the solution. It appeared that we where not able to login as root, 
> but user login was possible.
> Logged in as user I was allowed to 'su' to root.
> Perhaps this may be a hint, perhaps not, perhaps Bruno remembers the 
> solution???
> Tiemo
>
> David Kesselring wrote:
>
> > I apologize for the many recent questions but I have another trivia
> > question for all of you. :-)
> > I have installed the RH7.3 miniport to a harddrive connected to a MIPS
> > Malta board. The kernel the comes with the port (2.4.18) works fine. I
> > then took the cvs code (2.4.22) for mips and built it for malta. The 
> > first
> > few builds worked ok (which means I could logon as root). Then I changed
> > something in the build process so that now the kernels which I build 
> > won't
> > allow me to logon as root. I've changed /etc/passwd to eliminate the root
> > pw. Does anyone know how a kernel can affect the login like this?
> > Thanks,
> >
> > David Kesselring
> > Atmel MMC
> > dkesselr@mmc.atmel.com
> > 919-462-6587
> >
> >
> >
> >