AW: Cannot log in as root directly, but su works

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Monday 12 March 2007 17:46, Martetschlaeger Stefan wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've finally solved the problem. 
> It's been a problem with the securetty checks in login, because login assumes that 
> the ttyxx is in the /dev/ directory. In fact the tty device was (due to /dev beeing 
> a symlink) in /mnt/ramdisk0/dev/ttyS0 which didn't resolve to ttyS0 in the login 
> applet and thus not allowing root to login. 
> The fix would be to either change all entries in securetty to the mnt/ramdisk... 
> directory or change the behaviour of login to assume that the tty devicefile is 
> beeing held in /dev. 

A few more more alternatives:

a) mount ramdist on /dev instead of having it symlinked
b) nuke /etc/securetty
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