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Date:      Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:16:24 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   DEVFS and console
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808020105510.6724-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>

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Hi,

I'm unable to log in on console when I use DEVFS-enabled kernel. syslog
says:

LOGIN root REFUSED (NOROOT) ON TTY vga

I always thought 'vga' is an output device... :-)). Anyway, adding a line:

vga	none	cons25 off secure

to /etc/ttys helps to get around this...


Andrzej Bialecki

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