From owner-freebsd-current Wed Dec 16 14:20:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA21281 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:20:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org ([142.177.186.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA21276 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 14:20:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA28255; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:19:54 -0400 (AST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 18:19:54 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Nate Williams cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd serial console problem... In-Reply-To: <199812162145.OAA25415@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > > Since my 3.0 machine is several thousand kilometers away, we have the > > serial console enabled, and plugged inot a port on a Portmaster 2e > > terminal server...all of a sudden, it won't allow me to login anymore, > > even thogh I can 'see' the boot sequence and any error messages on teh > > screen: > > > > FreeBSD (hub.org) (ttyd0) > > login: root > > Password:Login timed out after 300 seconds > > > > FreeBSD (hub.org) (ttyd0) > > login: > > > > The password I type is correct, as I can 'su' in a shell using the > > same one...it just doesn't let me login through the console... > > Look at /etc/ttys to make sure 'secure' is set on the console. First thing I thought about, and it is set to secure ... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message