Re: root login on console not allowed -- why and how?

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

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Steve Lamb wrote:
> Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> 
>>however, fails. No matter what password is entered, the system refuses to
>>let us in as root. The root-password can be changed without problem
>>when `su'-ed to root so the problem is not that it's mistyped at the
>>prompt or anything.
> 
> 
>     What does /etc/securetty say?
> 

This is what I'm thinking. Sometimes my consoles were vc's instead of
tty's and since the first is vc/0 and isn't in /etc/securetty. The only
difference here is that it doesn't work when switching to a different
console (Alt+F2 would go to vc/1 which IS allowed).
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