Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:49, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
>
> Do you have /etc/securetty ?
>
> It should contain your console devices (without /dev)
> mine reads :
>
> <<BEGIN>>
> console
>
> # Standard consoles
> tty1
> tty2
> tty3
>
>
> # Same as above, but these only occur with devfs devices
> vc/1
> vc/2
> vc/3
>
>
> <<END>>
> They go on to tty12,
>
> Frank
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I cut & pasted mine below. What am I looking for?
Thanks for the reply.
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console
# for people with serial port consoles
ttyS0
# for devfs
tts/0
# Standard consoles
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tty13
tty14
tty15
tty16
tty17
tty18
tty19
tty20
tty21
tty22
tty23
tty24
tty25
tty26
tty27
tty28
tty29
tty30
tty31
tty32
tty33
tty34
tty35
tty36
tty37
tty38
tty39
tty40
tty41
tty42
tty43
tty44
tty45
tty46
tty47
tty48
tty49
tty50
tty51
tty52
tty53
tty54
tty55
tty56
tty57
tty58
tty59
tty60
tty61
tty62
tty63
# Same as above, but these only occur with devfs devices
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
vc/13
vc/14
vc/15
vc/16
vc/17
vc/18
vc/19
vc/20
vc/21
vc/22
vc/23
vc/24
vc/25
vc/26
vc/27
vc/28
vc/29
vc/30
vc/31
vc/32
vc/33
vc/34
vc/35
vc/36
vc/37
vc/38
vc/39
vc/40
vc/41
vc/42
vc/43
vc/44
vc/45
vc/46
vc/47
vc/48
vc/49
vc/50
vc/51
vc/52
vc/53
vc/54
vc/55
vc/56
vc/57
vc/58
vc/59
vc/60
vc/61
vc/62
vc/63
--
John Foster
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