system not letting me log in as root

[Ameer Armaly]

As far as I know it doesn't work on tty1-tty6, and they all are in
securetty.

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From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 6:58 PM
Subject: Re: system not letting me log in as root


> Ameer,
>
> When you try to log in as root and it fails, what console are you using?
> Is that console mentioned in /etc/securetty? Only consoles mentioned in
> that file will support root logins, although normal users might log in
> okay.
>
>
> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ameer Armaly wrote:
>
> > su works exactly as expected.
> >
> >
> > Life is either tragedy or comedy.
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> > From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 4:21 PM
> > Subject: Re: system not letting me log in as root
> >
> >
> >> Can you become root with the "su" command after logging in as a normal
> >> user?
> >>
> >> Not sure what that will tell us, but I am curious.
> >>
> >> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Ameer Armaly wrote:
> >>
> >>> I  can log into my normal user (all lowercase), and it works fine.
> >>> The thing is, with root, it doesn't even prompt for a password, just
> > spits me
> >>> out.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 13 Sep 2004, Gene Collins wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hi Ameer.  Did you make sure the caps lock is not on on the console
you
> >>>> are trying to use for rroot login?  I know it's obvious, but
sometimes
> >>>> it's the obvious things that get over looked.
> >>>>
> >>>> Gene
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi all.
> >>>>> I just got back to my system, and when I type in root as the
username,
> >>>>> it
> >>>>> acts as if that's invallid.
> >>>>> What's wrong?
> >>>>> Ameer
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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