In the /etc/pam.d/login file comment out the line

auth       required    /lib/security/pam_securetty.so


Soumyajit Deb
IIIT Hyderabad

On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Abhishikt Rehmat Masih wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>             I am facing this problem that my linux
> won't allow me to login as "root" from a remote
> terminal. Though I have made the entry of "pts/0" in
> the "/etc/securetty" file. Previously I had done this
> on some other system and it worked. I don't understant
> why its not working this time. 
>  Can someone please help....
> 
> 
> Thanks and Regards
> 
> Abhi
> 
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