>> >> But in RedHat 6.0 this doesn't work at all... Now,,, anybody got any ideas? > >Security issues aside ... you can add these lines to /etc/securetty: >0 >1 >2 >3 >4 >5 >6 >7 >8 >9 >Yes, that's 0..9 each on its own line. Why? I got this advice by On newer kernels ( I bet that Redhat 6.0 has one... ) , /dev/ptyN don't exist anymore; instead, you have /dev/pts/0 through /dev/pts/NNN Thus you are probably matching those. Carl