Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
On Friday 14 September 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote: _ From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to. I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. [snip...] Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty). There should be at least one uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all virtual terminals, add tty1 through tty12. Thanks Mark for the reply, however, don't I already have those set in /etc/securetty (as shown above)?? I am not sure if pam will allow you to do what you want (perhaps it is a matter of setting it up accordingly, but haven't looked into it). Have you tried removing pam to see if login without passwds can happen? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
Hi, On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:07:02 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 070913 Daevid Vincent wrote: I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins, so that mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords: have a look in such places as /etc/login*/etc/security/* . Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help. /etc/pam.d if using PAM. Special attention to the nullok option to pam_unix. Also see the man page for pam_unix. Exceptionally stupid idea to do this but since the OP insists... (Free tip: sudo is better in most cases) -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to. I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild broke it on me. Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a Password prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says Login incorrect. -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my daevid account without password and that logs in fine on the console and ssh. I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way it did. Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ? LAMP pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root auth required pam_shells.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth accountrequired pam_access.so accountinclude system-auth accountrequired pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root password include system-auth sessionrequired pam_env.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd sessionoptional pam_mail.so # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam* #sessionoptionalpam_console.so sessioninclude system-auth LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console pts/0 pts/1 pts/2 pts/3 pts/4 pts/5 pts/6 pts/7 pts/8 vc/0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 vc/12 tty0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 tty12 tts/0 ttyS0 ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty). There should be at least one uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all virtual terminals, add tty1 through tty12. -- - Mark Shields
RE: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
_ From: Mark Shields [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 10:07 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... On 9/13/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to. I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild broke it on me. Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a Password prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says Login incorrect. -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my daevid account without password and that logs in fine on the console and ssh. I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way it did. Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ? LAMP pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root auth required pam_shells.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth accountrequired pam_access.so accountinclude system-auth accountrequired pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root password include system-auth sessionrequired pam_env.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd sessionoptional pam_mail.so # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam* #sessionoptionalpam_console.so sessioninclude system-auth LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console pts/0 pts/1 pts/2 pts/3 pts/4 pts/5 pts/6 pts/7 pts/8 vc/0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 vc/12 tty0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 tty12 tts/0 ttyS0 Check out /etc/securetty (man securetty). There should be at least one uncommented entry listing 'tty1' if you want to be able to log in with just the first virtual terminal, or if you want root to be allowed on all virtual terminals, add tty1 through tty12. - Mark Shields Thanks Mark for the reply, however, don't I already have those set in /etc/securetty (as shown above)??
[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
I've posted this about two months ago without any replies. I've been googling and trying things, but still can't get this to work like it used to. I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. This WAS working perfectly, then PAM or some other ebuild broke it on me. Just for sanity, I even assigned root a password, I now get a Password prompt, but it STILL can't login. (positive I'm typing it right) It says Login incorrect. -Original Message- From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 3:47 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh... I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after x seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my daevid account without password and that logs in fine on the console and ssh. I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way it did. Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ? LAMP pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root auth required pam_shells.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth accountrequired pam_access.so accountinclude system-auth accountrequired pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root password include system-auth sessionrequired pam_env.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd sessionoptional pam_mail.so # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam* #sessionoptionalpam_console.so sessioninclude system-auth LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console pts/0 pts/1 pts/2 pts/3 pts/4 pts/5 pts/6 pts/7 pts/8 vc/0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 vc/12 tty0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 tty12 tts/0 ttyS0 ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
070913 Daevid Vincent wrote: I simply want root to be able to login from console (tty[1-6]) or ssh (pts/[0-9]) without a password. Currently ssh does work fine. It's only the physical console that doesn't. There is a provision somewhere to disallow root logins, so that mb your problem rather than anything to do with passwords: have a look in such places as /etc/login*/etc/security/* . Just a quick suggestion in the absence of more informative help. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] root can't login on console, but can ssh...
I have a LAMP development VMWare setup so that I can login as root sans password. This was working fine until something recently changed that. It doesn't even prompt for the password, it just timesout after 60 seconds. Oddly I can ssh in as root (without the password as expected). I have my daevid account without password and that logs in fine on the console and ssh. I can circumvent this behaviour by logging in as 'daevid', then 'sudo su -' (which doesn't prompt for pw either), but I'd like it to work the way it did. Perhaps it was some PAM thing? Or login.defs? Or in pam.d/ ? LAMP pam.d # cat login #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_securetty.so auth required pam_tally.so file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root auth required pam_shells.so auth required pam_nologin.so auth include system-auth accountrequired pam_access.so accountinclude system-auth accountrequired pam_tally.so deny=0 file=/var/log/faillog onerr=succeed no_magic_root password include system-auth sessionrequired pam_env.so sessionoptional pam_lastlog.so sessionoptional pam_motd.so motd=/etc/motd sessionoptional pam_mail.so # If you want to enable pam_console, uncomment the following line # and read carefully README.pam_console in /usr/share/doc/pam* #sessionoptionalpam_console.so sessioninclude system-auth LAMP ~ # cat /etc/securetty # /etc/securetty: list of terminals on which root is allowed to login. # See securetty(5) and login(1). console pts/0 pts/1 pts/2 pts/3 pts/4 pts/5 pts/6 pts/7 pts/8 vc/0 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 vc/7 vc/8 vc/9 vc/10 vc/11 vc/12 tty0 tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 tty7 tty8 tty9 tty10 tty11 tty12 tts/0 ttyS0 ÐÆ5ÏÐ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
