init/login problems

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Igor,

In order for root to log into your new consoles you must edit
/etc/securetty and add the names of those consoles.

Chuck

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Igor Gueths wrote:

> Hi all. i just installed Slackware-9.1. After finding out that dhclient
> was broken, I used dhcpcd and got an IP from the router over here.
> However, I noticed that only 5 ttys were enabled, so I edited inittab
> just like I did on my previous Debian system to add 6 more consoles. The
> syntax in inittab is: console:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 <tty>.
> Example: c6:1235:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
>
> And I did this for all 12 ttys. Granted, I got the 12
> consoles...However, I can't login as root in consoles 6-12, nor can I
> login as user (the account being igueths). All the other accounts I
> created could login just fine. Could my problem be something with the
> UID's not being set propperly? Also, init is periodically respawning
> process when it shouldn't be i.e., I get messages about certain consoles
> respawning too fast. Anyone have any ideas on how I can fix this? Quite
> honestly, I've never seen this type of behavior before on a pretty much
> newly installed system. Thanks!
> spawning too fa
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> ------------ Output from gpg ------------
> gpg: Signature made Tue Apr 27 22:34:57 2004 EDT using DSA key ID FD735C93
> gpg: Good signature from "Igor Gueths <igueths at lava-net.com>"
> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> gpg:          There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
> Primary key fingerprint: DB83 E70D CAE4 A9CB B1AB  36DE 3688 6869 FD73 5C93
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>

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