Subject: Re: root login refused on tty ttySf
To: Rick Copeland <rickgc@calweb.com>
From: Lord Isildur <mrfusion@jdwarren.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/26/2000 10:24:43
On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Rick Copeland wrote:

> I have looked at the /etc/ttys file and the is no "ttySf".  I have included
> a print out of the /etc/ttys file:

that there is no entry explains why you cannot log in as root on the tty. 
howon earth you got a getty on it is a mystery!

> Notice that I have added "secure" to ttyqf and ttypf and it had no effect!

that is because qf is a pseudotty, which you might get if you rlogin'ed 
or telnetted to the machine. Sf is the 16th serial line. qf is the 
thirty-second pseudotty. 

Isildur