Subject: RE: Boot without an active serial console?
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Jason Mitchell <jmitchel@bigjar.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/22/2007 17:32:47
Actually no. "no login" means that the router doesn't prompt for a username
or password. It just gives you an unpriviliged router prompt with no
authentication. In 12.2 the command is now "no login authentication"
probably to remove a source of confusion.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: port-i386-owner@NetBSD.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@NetBSD.org]On
> Behalf Of john heasley
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:22 PM
> To: Chris Ross
> Cc: john heasley; port-i386@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: Boot without an active serial console?
>
>
> Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:19:16PM -0400, Chris Ross:
> >
> > On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:11 PM, john heasley wrote:
> > >> no exec
> > >   ^^^^^^
> > >This is the key command.  Without it, the cisco is spitting out
> > >Username
> > >prompts and causing interruption of the boot process.
> >
> >   Ahh, I can see how "no exec" (or "no login".  Does "no exec" imply
> > "no login" ?) could change that.  Excellent, thanks!  I'll give that
> > a shot RSN...
>
> I believe so.  IIRC, no login means no CLI, but arap/slip/ppp ok.