From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 31 17:36:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0161F37B43E for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:36:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ganerc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 13UeoZ-0008W2-01; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:36:15 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by ganerc.mips.inka.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e810YvC00947 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 02:34:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: /etc/ttys and "headless" systems Date: 1 Sep 2000 02:34:56 +0200 Message-ID: <8omtjg$ta$1@ganerc.mips.inka.de> References: <39AEC39E.FB5F6C27@cisco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Zwiebel 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