Ahh... A little more looking revealed that I just couldn't log in as
root because the serial port wasn't listed in /etc/securetty.
Jason
Hr. Daniel Mikkelsen wrote:
On Sun, 11 May 2003, Jason Richey wrote:
Okay. I recompiled the kernel on Pliny. I
included support for a
serial console (null modem connected to ttyS0 on Larousse). I can get
a login prompt using the serial console, but authentication is failing
for some reason. I am using agetty, which I don't know anything about
This probably has to do with agetty not being listed in the PAM configuration,
so it can't access password hashes.
I haven't fiddled with PAM on GNU/Linux, but look in /etc/pam.d or something.
-- Daniel
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