From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 20:06:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA27631 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:06:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gregory.dyn.ml.org (cgowave-22-127.cgocable.net [24.226.22.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA27623 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 20:06:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org) From: dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by gregory.dyn.ml.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA03746; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:06:15 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 23:06:15 -0400 (EDT) To: The Sequence , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: allowing root logins at console Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Can you post your /etc/ttys file? > >-=Richard Secor > Sequential Logic=- > >> >>It seems to me that replacing 'insecure' with 'secure' in for my ttyv* >>entries etc/ttys should enable me to login as root at the console. Such >>is not the case even after reboot. What am I doing wrong? >> >>Thanks, >>Dave >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> Here it is: %cat /etc/ttys # # $Id: ttys,v 1.16.2.2 1998/09/03 22:14:37 brian Exp $ # @(#)ttys 5.1 (Berkeley) 4/17/89 # # name getty type status comments # # This entry needed for asking password when init goes to single-user mode # If you want to be asked for password, change "secure" to "insecure" here console none unknown off insecure # ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure # Virtual terminals ttyv1 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv2 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure ttyv3 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure # Serial terminals # The 'dialup' keyword identifies dialin lines to login, fingerd etc. #ttyd0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure #ttyd1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure #ttyd2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure #ttyd3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" dialup off secure # Pseudo terminals ttyp0 none network To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message