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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!blkbox!cbevis From: cbevis@blkbox.com (Cameron Bevis) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Help! Login doesn't ask for passwd! Date: 28 Jun 1994 05:48:42 GMT Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <2uodjq$9eg@blkbox.blkbox.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: blkbox.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hello all. I hate to be answering my own questions in the group, but I couldn't wait for an answer. The problem was "no request for Password: after Login: prompt, just Login incorrect". Here's what I ended up doing: First, I booted off the fixit disk. I thought this might be an input device problem of some kind, so I mounted wd0a on /mnt and ls'ed the tty files under /mnt/dev. Sure enough the tty file was corrupted, no "character" bit set. I rm'ed the bad tty file and created another one, rebooted, everything was fine. I apologize to BSD gurus for boring you with this post, but I thought it might help another "newbie" like me in the same situation. Thanks to all in this group and the FreeBSD Core team for their support. Cam Bevis cbevis@blkbox.com