From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 28 19:36:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA13643 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 19:36:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moss.verinet.com (root@moss.verinet.com [204.144.246.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA13638 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 19:36:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bamboo.verinet.com (bamboo.verinet.com [204.144.246.3]) by moss.verinet.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with ESMTP id UAA00301 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 20:35:03 -0600 Received: from pragma (port42.verinet.com [204.144.246.91]) by bamboo.verinet.com (8.8.5/8.7.1) with SMTP id UAA00292 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 1997 20:35:55 -0600 Message-ID: <33B5CA4B.29EB@verinet.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 20:37:00 -0600 From: Allen Campbell Reply-To: allenc@verinet.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: login.conf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is the /ect/login.conf optional? I just installed FreeBSD 2.2.2 and in 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. When I attempt to login as root from another host, the system console displays; login: LOGIN root REFUSED (NOROOT) FROM my.other.host ON TTY ttyp0. I have read much of the available information regarding login.conf, login.access and the login process, both in the system docs and on the web, and I have not found any answers. The login.conf man page says that the 'root' record, if present, will be used for a 0 UID, and the 'default' record will be used when no root record exists. What happens when the login.conf is missing altogether?