Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Allen Campbell <allenc@verinet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login.conf Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970629122008.1100F-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <33B5CA4B.29EB@verinet.com>
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On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Allen Campbell wrote: > Is the /ect/login.conf optional? I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 and in Yes and no. It's required for quiet operation but the system will work fine (albeit with lots of console messages) without it. > an effort to discover why I could not login as root from a psuedo > terminal, I discovered that login.conf was not installed in /etc. You really don't want to have root logging in an psuedo terminals. Log in as a normal user and then su to root if you need to. This is not new to 2.2.2 BTW. If you really want to do this change the terminal entries in /etc/ttys to secure, see the console entry. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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