Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 14:20:11 -0700 From: "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'=22Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav=22'?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: cannot log on as root after upgrade Message-ID: <000a01c55993$e4b6d8a0$0a2a15ac@Sonomago> In-Reply-To: <86br7dewqh.fsf@xps.des.no>
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From: "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" [mailto:des@des.no] > "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> writes: >> >> [Paraphrased] Logging in on the console as root produces >> "pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error" message and login failure. > > This is not a PAM bug. Someone broke ttyname() so the code that > checks if you are logging in on a secure tty fails. Quick workaround: > comment out the pam_securetty line in /etc/pam.d/login. The workaround has made direct root logins possible again, thanks. I've just now noticed another error message--this one upon log-out. I don't have the exact text of the error message (I couldn't find it in the log files), but the text is like "no utmp entry for tty??" or "could not remove utmp entry for tty??" with the question marks actually there, instead of the real name of the tty I was logged in on. Is this error message also due to the breakage?help
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