Re: more on terminal log in problem.

[Nicolas Pitre <nico CAM ORG>]

As a workaround, you can set up a user acount in which you will be able to
log in through your serial link.  Then issueing a "su -l" command you will
become root.

On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, dave m mehler wrote:

> Hello,
> 	Thanks to all who have responded to my problem thus far. Let me clarify
> a point, I'm not trying to telnet to this machine, I'm using a serial
> terminal connected to /dev/ttyS0 I'm sorry I didn't make that more clear.
> Again, I'm doing a fresh zipslack installation, and as has been suggested
> I have uncommented the name of my ttyS in /etc/sec, the securety file.
> However, this has still not solved my problem. In brief, that is, when I
> log in from the console as root, everything works, I have not set a root
> password, but when I log in from my serial terminal I'm asked for a
> password.
> Thanks for any help.
> Dave.
> 
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Nicolas Pitre, B. ing.
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