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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- Mark Shields