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From: hart@apanix.apana.org.au (Leigh Hart)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: SYSCONS: Root login refused on this term.
Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:56:20 +1030
Organization: APANIX Public Access Unix, Australia, +61-8-373-5485 (3 lines)
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ae516@freenet.buffalo.edu (Christopher L. Mikkelson) writes:
>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?
Change:
#
# @(#)/etc/ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#
# name getty type status comments
ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on
...
...
...
ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on
To:
#
# @(#)/etc/ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89
#
# name getty type status comments
ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on secure
...
...
...
ttyvb "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" pc3 on secure
You usually do this before rebooting into a kernel that uses different
devices to login via the console.
Cheers
Leigh
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