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 Sm=F8rgrav" [mailto:des@des.no]=20 > "Darren Pilgrim" <dmp@bitfreak.org> writes: >> >> [Paraphrased] Logging in on the console as root produces >> "pam_acct_mgmt(): authentication error" message and login failure. >=20 > 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?
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