Remco Blaakmeer <remco@Cal011205.student.utwente.nl> writes: > On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: > > > I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The > > binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into > > another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The > > login prompt comes, but it never asks for a password after typing the > > user name. Where can I search for a solution!? What's login doing > > after getting the user name? > > I think the right answer the the question would be 'being started'. The > user name is asked by getty or whatever you run instead of getty. After it > gets the user name, it tries to start login. Are you sure the diskless > computer has a /bin/login? Yes, because the manpage says of login says that it presents the login: prompt. And so it does. And I've checked it again (looking at server filesystem). The shared libs are there too. Bye Christian -- Christian Leutloff, Aachen, Germany leutloff@sundancer.oche.de http://www.oche.de/~leutloff/ Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1! Mehr unter http://www.de.debian.org/
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