I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to.
I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild "broke it" on me. Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a "Password" prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says "Login incorrect". -----Original Message----- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my "daevid" account without password and that logs in fine on the console and ssh. I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way it did. Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ? LAMP pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root auth required pam_shells.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth account required pam_access.so account include system-auth account required pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root password include system-auth session required pam_env.so session optional pam_lastlog.so session optional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd session optional pam_mail.so # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam* #session optional pam_console.so session include system-auth LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console pts/0 pts/1 pts/2 pts/3 pts/4 pts/5 pts/6 pts/7 pts/8 vc/0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 vc/12 tty0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 tty12 tts/0 ttyS0 ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
