Re: Login directly as root.

2002-12-27 Thread William Michael Grim
If I had to take a guess, the reason normal user logins are disabled during "insecure" on single mode is because of the way authentication may be getting handled, among other things. First off, it's single-user mode, meant for only the root user; no one else has a need for the system at that point

Login directly as root.

2002-12-27 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
Hello hackers... I'm wondering why there is "insecure" options in /etc/ttys for virtual consoles. As we all know, "insecure" for ttyvX means that we can't directly log in as root, but "insecure" for console field in /etc/ttys means only that we will be asked for root's password in single mode. Hm