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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!dxcern!tifrvax.tifr.res.in!bhiksha From: bhiksha@tifrvax.tifr.res.in Subject: RE: SYSCONS: Root login refused on this term. Message-ID: <24JAN94.08192708@tifrvax.tifr.res.in> Sender: news@dxcern.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: Tata Institute of Fundamental Research References: <199401222301.SAA25545@freenet.buffalo.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 1994 08:19:27 GMT Lines: 11 In a previous article, ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) wrote: >Hello all! > I recently tried to login on my FreeBSD 1.0 system as root (from the >console), but got a "root login refused on this terminal" error. This >strikes me as a more than minor inconvenience. i.e. What if there were >no other users (besides root) set up, and the user tried to boot a >syscons kernel. How do you get around this? > Look into /etc/ttys file. If the console is not marked secure you cant login as root..