yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel) (08/24/89)
We have a few workstation of DEC running Ultrix3.0 with DECwindows.
In order to prevent users from having root privileges (via b/2 on
console) we put an "exec /bin/login" in /.profile.
The problem is that when I DO want to login as root in single user
mode I cannot, (I get a "login incorrect"). It seems to me that the
console is not defined as "secure" in /etc/ttys. Indeed the console is
not defined at all - it is commented out, instead a :0 (X11 display)
is defined (with a secure clause) but in single user you do not have
DECwindows running.
My solution was to login as an ordinary user and su to root.
Did I spotted the correct problem? Is there another (nicer) solution?
What happens when discommenting ttyv0 and xcons ?
I am appending a shorted version of my /etc/ttys for reference.
# "@(#)ttys 4.1 (ULTRIX) 11/23/87"
#
#
#
# name getty type status comments
#
#console "/etc/getty e" dw3 on secure # console terminal
tty00 "/etc/getty std.19200" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
[...]
tty14 "/etc/getty std.19200" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
tty15 "/etc/getty std.19200" vt100 off nomodem # direct connect tty
ttyp0 none network
[...]
ttyqe none network
ttyqf none network
#ttyv0 "/usr/bin/xterm -L -sb -rv -geometry =80x24+195+275 -d unix:0" \
xterm on secure window="/usr/bin/Xqdsg -fd 75 :0"
:0 "/usr/bin/login -P /usr/bin/Xprompter -C /usr/bin/dxsession" \
none on secure window="/usr/bin/Xqdsg -fd 75 -bp #000080 c 70"
#xcons "/usr/bin/xcons 10 ttyv0" none on nomodem
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