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Re: Cannot login on serial console



Guenter Millahn wrote:
> 
> Dear fellow Linux'ers,
> 
> some days ago I installed an Ultra-80 with woody. But now I only
> can login as root via OpenSSH.
> 
> Console Login is impossible.
> 
> The configuration:
> Headless machine without Floppy/CDROM, 2 CPU, 1GB RAM, 18GB HD
> with a serial DEC VT220 terminal.
> Kernel 2.2.19-sun4u-smp.
> 
> Any idea what's wrong???
> 
> Thank you in advance for your time.

Check you the file /etc/securetty and see if ttyS0 is in there.  If
not, add it!  Just out of curiosity, did you do the install from a
serial console?  Because that's how I installed mine (potato, not
woody) and it automagically added ttyS0 to my /etc/securetty.

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