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> On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 05:22:36PM -0700, Kanoj Sarcar wrote:
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> > So, SMP multiuser works somewhat. Basically, at the console, I can not
> > log in as root. This is what the console says:
> >
> > trillium login: root
> > X<38>May 8 17:14:51 PAM_pwdb[298]: (login) session opened for user root by
> > (uid=0)Last login: Mon May 8 16:49:45 on ttyS0
> > A<38>May 8 17:14:51 PAM_pwdb[298]: DIALUP AT ttyS0 BY root
> > A<37>May 8 17:14:51 PAM_pwdb[298]: ROOT LOGIN ON ttyS0
> >
> >
> > WELCOME TO THE FIRST o2000 SYSTEM RUNNING LINUX 2.3!!
> >
> >
> > Q<38>May 8 17:14:51 PAM_pwdb[298]: (login) session closed for user root
> >
> >
> > Hard Hat Linux Hard Hat release 5.1 (Manhattan)
> > Kernel 2.3.99-pre6 on a mips64
> >
> >
> > I am mystified as to why "session closed for user root" is happening.
> > Any PAM experts out there can point me to startup scripts etc that
> > control PAM, so I can hack around and see what the problem is?
>
> > Surprisingly, root/guest logins from telnet windows work fine
> > on the SMP kernel.
>
> I think that looks like the terminal which you're using to login which
> probably is /dev/ttyS0 isn't configured in /etc/securetty. Well,
That was my first thought, but it doesn't hold because UP kernels
allow console logins for root.
> securetty is a stupid concept, so you can just delete the whole file
> or remove references to pam_securetty.so in /etc/pam.d/*.
>
> Pam is controlled by /etc/pam.d/* plus a number modulespecific files.
> Details are documented in /usr/doc/pam*/.
Okay, I will hack with this, maybe there's a timing issue with the
SMP kernel.
Kanoj
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> Ralf
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