Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Marco Masotti <masotti@mclink.it> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S/key access and console device Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980612002759.11999U-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <357A93FE.41C6@mclink.it>
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On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Marco Masotti wrote: > I've enabled the s/key passwords on my system. > > Unfortunately now anytime I log in through the local keyboard and screen > still I'm requested to enter the S/Key password, not the UNIX one. > > Since any access throuh the console device should be via UNIX passwords, > I'm suspecting that the keyboard/screen devices are nor really > considered the real console. In fact they are /dev/ttyv? and not really > /dev/console. > > So how can I access the real console device? The `console' entry is used for logging and for single-user mode (boot -s). Otherwise, once rc is finished, the console is reliquished to the gettys. If you've enabled S/Key, then we assume you're using s/key passwords everywhere. :) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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