On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Wernfried Haas wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:30:15PM +0200, Christopher Friedt wrote: > > Originally, I ran into some trouble when I allowed the default init > > routine to run, because it froze on 'starting local'. I eventually > > discovered that was because my main serial device should be /dev/ttyAM0 > > instead of /dev/ttyS1 in /etc/inittab. I fixed that, and then found that > > I couldn't login as root, even after adjusting /etc/password to > > You are talking about logging in via serial console, right? > I may be completely on the wrong track here, but you may need to add > ttyAM0 to /etc/securetty to be able to log in as root.
wonder if it'd be worthwhile to have shadow's login whine if you give correct user/pass for root but securetty is blocking you ... -mike
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