Hello All, Well this dweeb finally went & read the text
of Joshua's Trouble ticket & the hammer finally dropped
on the last remaining braincell . DOH ! All I had to do
was enter ttyS0 into the /etc/securetty . I also thought
it was already there , thus didn't even think to look .
Oh-Well read & learn . For sparc & alpha ttyS0 s/b in
there (imo of course) . Tnx all, JimL
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Hello Dave , That approach didn't work either . But the 'T'
> connector I put in the connection showed that the chars were
> correct . So back to console for now . If I can't get in
> it no good either . Tnx, JimL
> On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > Hello Dave , after rebooting with the inittab co entry pointing
> > at ttyS0 the login prompts passwd entry is not picking up the
> > Shifted chars , I suspect . I'll try something odd , I'll try
> > sending the chars accross thru kermits 'transmit' command & see
> > if I can gain entry that way . Let you know in a few . JimL
> > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> > > Hello Dave, using Joshua's approach . I have changed the
> > > entry in /etc/inittab to /dev/ttyS0 only I pulled a boo-boo
> > > and entered it just like above ... So I booted into single
> > > user mode & Viola ^c works here . ?-) I also editted the
> > > entry in inittab to be correct again . Hth , JimL
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