mgetty login problems, above.

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Hi,

Stephen allen Schwenker wrote:
> Sorry about all the emails. You must be getting really pissed at me.  I 
> just started getting deeper into linux, and I am finding when you get 
> deeper, everything gets harder.  I just found out that it was asking me 
> for the password because when I hit enter for the username, it prints 
> Password:, and then hangs up.  There isn't enough time to input a password.
> Could you explain what is a PAM problem?
> 
> I just looked into one of the log files and found an error message.
> 
> 07/08 16:26:57 yS1  cannot set controlling tty (ioctl): Operation not 
> permitted

This means "please read the manual before even thinking of asking on the
mailing list".

Or, to be translated: don't run mgetty from the command line.  Put it into
/etc/inittab.

And, phrased differently again: send a log file if you have problems! We
*know* what the lines mean.

gert
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