From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 29 12:26:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA14274 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:26:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (ns2.BEACH.net [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA14269 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:26:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id TAA01205; Sun, 29 Jun 1997 19:25:54 GMT Date: Sun, 29 Jun 1997 12:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Allen Campbell cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login.conf In-Reply-To: <33B5CA4B.29EB@verinet.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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