I thought I would share my findings with the list. One of the things I've
been doing is using a directory (instead of a dedicated partition) to store
my root file system and resulting BLFS operating system. I use the
guidelines described for mounting a directory instead of using a partition.
Everything works wonderfully well and now I try to copy my entire root file
system/OS to a separate machine using nfs so that I can boot my install.
Everything works wonderfully well except the login and this is because the
following files are not copied over (because their perms are 500 - the
file are passwd-, shadow, group- and gshadow. Once I changed their perms and
copied the files over,the system boots and logins in flawlessly...
I wonder if there would be any interest if I proposed to write a "hint" on
this...
Krishna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Krishna Ganugapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:08 AM
Subject: /etc/securetty missing and cannot login
Hello,
I followed the instructions for building linux-pam and shadow for BLFS 61.
after having a succesful LFS 6.1 - when I attempt to login in, I get a
"cannot open /etc/securetty" followed by a "failure to authenticate"
essage - the boot sequence of the kernel is flawless - I get no failures
until this point.
I went through BLFS 6.1 and cannot find where exactly is my /etc/securetty
file created.
Thanks for any help.
Krishna
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