On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 13:26 +0200, YoYo Siska wrote:
> Jaap van Geffen wrote:
> > 
> > The weird thing is that I can create a user account and set a
> > password for it in the chrooted envirenment.
> > So I can only login as user and not as root.
> > 

> what does your /etc/securetty say? (man securetty)
> when you added the user did you add it into wheel group? then you should
> be able to
> su -
> from that user (providing right password)
> 

great!
I added the user to the wheel group and now I can su
to root.
Thank you

My /etc/seruretty says:
tts/0
Thats what is said to put there in the handbook.
An idea why I can't (directly) login as root?

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jaap

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