Date: 1 Sep 2000 02:34:56 +0200 From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/ttys and "headless" systems Message-ID: <8omtjg$ta$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> References: <39AEC39E.FB5F6C27@cisco.com>
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John Zwiebel <jzwiebel@cisco.com> wrote: > By default you don't enable the serial console in > /etc/ttys. I realize that its important to have > the extra security. I don't think security enters the picture here. Rather, serial ports tend to be occupied by mice, modems, computer-controlled sex toys, etc, so starting a getty there by default will not be sensible for the vast majority of users. > SU to, and then the first thing I do is to manually > change /etc/ttys so I can get getty running > on the serial console and can log in as root. > For some "god only knows" reason, this doesn't > always work for me. When I reboot, I end up with > no way to get into my PC. Boot into single user mode and correct your configuration from there. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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