a couple of login tips

[Alex Snow]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

that's the baud it connects at.
like in my /etc/inittab all the vc's are set to connect at 38400 but 
the local serial lines are set to 9600.
On 
Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:12:33PM -0500, Jes and guide dog Harley wrote:
> What does the 38400 mean in the /etc/inittab file? I know it's something to do with the bodrate or whatever of the console but I'm
> not sure exactly what it's used fore.
> 
> Jes and Harley
> Email: jesman598 at triad.rr.com
> Msn instant messenger: subman70 at hotmail.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net>
> To: speakup <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 7:10 PM
> Subject: a couple of login tips
> 
> 
> Here are a couple of login tips--one from a problem I brought up with
> debian unstable a couple of months ago, and the other from a question
> about automatic login that I can't find, either because it's in one of the
> months that didn't make the archives or because I'm mixed up and it was
> really a question on blinux.
> 
> If you are using debian unstable and still being driven crazy by getting
> the "respawning too fast; disabled for 5 minutes" when you log out, the
> util-linux package from testing doesn't have this problem and, for the
> time being anyway, still appears to be compatible with unstable.
> 
> As for autologin, it is possible to do this with mingetty. If you are
> already using mingetty, it appears that all you need do is add --autologin
> username (the username of course being your own--NOT root) to your tty1
> line in /etc/inittab. It's my understanding that mingetty will do this
> with only one tty, so you can weigh the security risks and decide whether
> or not you want to do it. It does, however, work.
> As for people who do not have mingetty already in use (debian users
> don't), you have to edit your /etc/inittab. Change "getty 38400" for
> each tty entry to
> "mingetty" (without the quotes); note that you remove the 38400. After the
> tty indicator, put an intervening space and your switches: --noclear if
> you don't want the screen
> cleared before the login prompt and --autologin username (your own
> username, NOT root) after tty1. I haven't determined whether this works
> with the buggy unstable util-linux, but it's fine with the testing
> util-linux package.
> It seems to me that the person asking about this might have wanted to do
> an autologin on more than one console, maybe some with root and some with
> the ordinary user; I don't remember the details of the post, and I would
> imagine this kind of setup, if possible, could be a bigger potential
> security problem.
> Hope this is of interest to somebody, and hope I'm not sending it to the
> wrong list.
> 
> 
> --
> Cheryl
> "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

- -- 
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid
back.

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFAUwcX9XVrM3ri110RAj7rAJ9/7mRueJID8vM1wepMnWoQaLS1YgCfSPxX
hr5i9YYQE/ZZ4J4VbxRKVac=
=LGOC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----