[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Daevid Vincent]

I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans
password. 

This was working fine until something recently changed that. 
It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after 60
seconds.

Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected).

I have my "daevid" account without password and that logs in fine on the
console and ssh.

I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su
-' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way
it did.

Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ?

LAMP pam.d # cat login 
#%PAM-1.0

auth       required     pam_securetty.so
auth       required     pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed
no_magic_root
auth       required     pam_shells.so
auth       required     pam_nologin.so
auth       include      system-auth

account    required     pam_access.so
account    include      system-auth
account    required     pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog
onerr=succeed no_magic_root

password   include      system-auth

session    required     pam_env.so
session    optional     pam_lastlog.so
session    optional     pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
session    optional     pam_mail.so

# If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line
# and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam*
#session    optional    pam_console.so

session    include      system-auth


LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty    
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console
pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
pts/3
pts/4
pts/5
pts/6
pts/7
pts/8
vc/0
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
tty0
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tts/0
ttyS0
 

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[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Daevid Vincent]

I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been
googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used
to.

I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh
(pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the
physical console that doesn't.

This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild "broke it" on me.

Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a "Password"
prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says
"Login incorrect".

-----Original Message-----
From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans
password. 

This was working fine until something recently changed that. 
It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x
seconds.

Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected).

I have my "daevid" account without password and that logs in fine on the
console and ssh.

I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su
-' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way
it did.

Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ?

LAMP pam.d # cat login 
#%PAM-1.0

auth       required     pam_securetty.so
auth       required     pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed
no_magic_root
auth       required     pam_shells.so
auth       required     pam_nologin.so
auth       include      system-auth

account    required     pam_access.so
account    include      system-auth
account    required     pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog
onerr=succeed no_magic_root

password   include      system-auth

session    required     pam_env.so
session    optional     pam_lastlog.so
session    optional     pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
session    optional     pam_mail.so

# If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line
# and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam*
#session    optional    pam_console.so

session    include      system-auth


LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty    
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console
pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
pts/3
pts/4
pts/5
pts/6
pts/7
pts/8
vc/0
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
tty0
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tts/0
ttyS0
 

ÐÆ5ÏÐ 


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Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Philip Webb]

070913 Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6])
> or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine.
> It's only the physical console that doesn't.

There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins,
so that mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords:
have a look in such places as  /etc/login*  &  /etc/security/* .
Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help.

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Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Hans-Werner Hilse]

Hi,

On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:07:02 -0400 Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca>
wrote:

> 070913 Daevid Vincent wrote:
> > I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6])
> > or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine.
> > It's only the physical console that doesn't.
> 
> There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins,
> so that mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords:
> have a look in such places as  /etc/login*  &  /etc/security/* .
> Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help.

/etc/pam.d if using PAM. Special attention to the nullok option to
pam_unix. Also see the man page for pam_unix. Exceptionally stupid idea
to do this but since the OP insists... (Free tip: sudo is better in most
cases)

-hwh
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Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Mark Shields]

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On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
>
> I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been
> googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used
> to.
>
> I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh
> (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only
> the
> physical console that doesn't.
>
> This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild "broke it" on
> me.
>
> Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a "Password"
> prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says
> "Login incorrect".
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
>
> I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans
> password.
>
> This was working fine until something recently changed that.
> It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x
> seconds.
>
> Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected).
>
> I have my "daevid" account without password and that logs in fine on the
> console and ssh.
>
> I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su
> -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way
> it did.
>
> Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ?
>
> LAMP pam.d # cat login
> #%PAM-1.0
>
> auth       required     pam_securetty.so
> auth       required     pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed
> no_magic_root
> auth       required     pam_shells.so
> auth       required     pam_nologin.so
> auth       include      system-auth
>
> account    required     pam_access.so
> account    include      system-auth
> account    required     pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog
> onerr=succeed no_magic_root
>
> password   include      system-auth
>
> session    required     pam_env.so
> session    optional     pam_lastlog.so
> session    optional     pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
> session    optional     pam_mail.so
>
> # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line
> # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam*
> #session    optional    pam_console.so
>
> session    include      system-auth
>
>
> LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty
> # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login.
> # See securetty(5) and login(1).
> console
> pts/0
> pts/1
> pts/2
> pts/3
> pts/4
> pts/5
> pts/6
> pts/7
> pts/8
> vc/0
> vc/1
> vc/2
> vc/3
> vc/4
> vc/5
> vc/6
> vc/7
> vc/8
> vc/9
> vc/10
> vc/11
> vc/12
> tty0
> tty1
> tty2
> tty3
> tty4
> tty5
> tty6
> tty7
> tty8
> tty9
> tty10
> tty11
> tty12
> tts/0
> ttyS0
>
>
> ÐÆ5ÏÐ
>
>
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>
>
Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty).  There should be at least one
uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just
the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all virtual
terminals, add tty1 through tty12.

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RE: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Daevid Vincent]

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From: Mark Shields [mailto:laebshade@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:07 AM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...


On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote: 


I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been
googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used
to.

I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh 
(pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the
physical console that doesn't.

This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild "broke it" on me.

Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a "Password"
prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says
"Login incorrect".

-----Original Message----- 
From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@daevid.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... 

I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans
password.

This was working fine until something recently changed that.
It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x 
seconds.

Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected).

I have my "daevid" account without password and that logs in fine on the
console and ssh.

I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su 
-' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way
it did.

Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ?

LAMP pam.d # cat login
#%PAM-1.0

auth       required     pam_securetty.so 
auth       required     pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed
no_magic_root
auth       required     pam_shells.so
auth       required     pam_nologin.so
auth       include      system-auth

account    required     pam_access.so
account    include      system-auth
account    required     pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog
onerr=succeed no_magic_root

password   include      system-auth

session    required     pam_env.so
session    optional     pam_lastlog.so
session    optional     pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd
session    optional     pam_mail.so

# If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line 
# and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam*
#session    optional    pam_console.so

session    include      system-auth

LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty
# /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. 
# See securetty(5) and login(1).
console
pts/0
pts/1
pts/2
pts/3
pts/4
pts/5
pts/6
pts/7
pts/8
vc/0
vc/1
vc/2
vc/3
vc/4
vc/5
vc/6
vc/7
vc/8
vc/9
vc/10
vc/11
vc/12
tty0
tty1
tty2
tty3
tty4
tty5
tty6
tty7
tty8
tty9
tty10
tty11
tty12
tts/0
ttyS0



Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty).  There should be at least one
uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just
the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all virtual
terminals, add tty1 through tty12. 

- Mark Shields   

Thanks Mark for the reply, however, don't I already have those set in
/etc/securetty (as shown above)??

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Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...

[Mick]

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On Friday 14 September 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>   _____
>
> From: Mark Shields [mailto:laebshade@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:07 AM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
>
>
> On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent <daevid@daevid.com> wrote:
>
>
> I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been
> googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used
> to.
>
> I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh
> (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the
> physical console that doesn't.
[snip...]
>
> Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty).  There should be at least one
> uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just
> the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all
> virtual terminals, add tty1 through tty12.

> Thanks Mark for the reply, however, don't I already have those set in
> /etc/securetty (as shown above)??

I am not sure if pam will allow you to do what you want (perhaps it is a 
matter of setting it up accordingly, but haven't looked into it).  Have you 
tried removing pam to see if login without passwds can happen?
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Regards,
Mick

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