Re: I accidentally deleted the root superuser How to reinstall
On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 09:24:45AM -0500, John Foster wrote:
> 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
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> I cut & pasted mine below. What am I looking for?
> Thanks for the reply.
>
Looks complete to me. That's not the problem then. I'm out of ideas.
Frank
> # /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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