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Re: linux 8.4.8: login

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Fri Jul 21 15:40:16 2000

To: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 21 Jul 2000 15:40:10 -0400
In-Reply-To: Brad Thompson's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2000 15:09:20 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hittzz2zp.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>

Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU> writes:

> System name:		rat-thing.mit.edu
> Type and version:	i686 8.4.8
> Display type:		
> 
> Shell:			/afs/sipb/project/bash/bash
> Window manager:		twm
> 
> What were you trying to do?
> 	Log in in the console or serial port on IS-Linux-Athena-8.4.
> 
> What's wrong:
> 	It says "login incorrect".
> 
> I have tried this over multiple users (yak, sipbtest, jweiss, and root)
> and multiple linux-athena machines (none of them layered), both by
> hitting ^P and attaching a serial terminal.  Here is the inittab line
> used for the serial terminal:
> 
>     S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 9600 vt100

What does /etc/conf.getty say?

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