From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 00:29:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA24002 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA23954 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:29:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA27384; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 00:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Marco Masotti cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: S/key access and console device In-Reply-To: <357A93FE.41C6@mclink.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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