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- From: martin@pandora.demon.co.uk (Martin White)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!pandora.demon.co.uk!martin
- Subject: Re: root login refused on some terminals, can't see kermit prompt.
- References: <chuck.724403788@perlab.eas.asu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 19:45:31 +0000
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.194531.4@pandora.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk
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- > Why is root login refused on some terminals? I've encountered this in
- > two places. first, I've added a couple extra getty calls in inittab so I can
- > login to tty5 and tty6, but if I try to login as root, I get the message
- > "root login refused on this terminal." Same thing happens if I try to login
- > as root from an xterm. What do I need to do to fix this?
-
- You need to add the new tty to /etc/securetty
-
- Martin
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