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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Root login refused on this terminal ... WHAT?
Date: 21 Jun 1995 11:31:56 +0200
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George N. Akimoff <iga@ipmce.su> wrote:
>I've run into the same problem. The source of "Root login refused..." not
>in /etc/ttys file, but in configuration of the new kernel. Check out
>option "COMPAT_43" in your kernel config file. If you commented it out,
>return it back.
I'm absolutely surprised that a kernel without COMPAT_43 is even able
to start a `getty' at all. :-O
A missing COMPAT_43 excludes all the sgtty-style ioctl's from the
kernel, and getty is certainly the most important application that's
(sigh!) still using sgtty style.
If there's somebody around with some time to burn, write a termios-
based getty, and you will enter the Hall of the Famous!
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)