On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:03:08AM -0700, satya kumar wrote:
> As adviced by you I went for Tinylogin and and successfully installed
> but still I cant login .Its giving an error now atleast.The error is
> login[45]:invalid password for 'UNKNOWN'on tty1 .And this message is
> displayed just as I press enter after entering the username as root.I
> guess something is wrong with the passwd file but I cant find any since
> I am using the same /etc/passwd file of the system on which I am trying
> to prepare the floppy.Just help me out.
I suspect, from previous experience, that you might not have a working
/dev/tty. Either that, or for some reason whatever you're using as a
getty (which I don't think tinylogin does itself, but I might be worng)
isn't able to *exec* your login program.
Cheers,
-- jra
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