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Operating Systems HP-UX Cannot able to login on console Post 302240358 by avronius on Thursday 25th of September 2008 01:39:55 PM
Old 09-25-2008
Statements:
You cannot login as you
You cannot login as root
Your colleague can login as himself

Questions:
Can your colleague login as root?
Can your colleague su - root?

If your colleague CAN login as himself, but cannot login as root, there is a good chance that root login via console has been disabled. Ask your colleague to su - root and reset your password to something that does not include "!" or "?" - preferably something that uses letters only. It's possible that your shell is doing some bad character substitution.
Last edited by avronius; 09-25-2008 at 02:40 PM.. Reason: grammatical errors
 

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securetty

SECURETTY(5)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						      SECURETTY(5)

NAME

       securetty - file which lists terminals from which root can log in

DESCRIPTION

       The file /etc/securetty contains the names of terminals (one per line, without leading /dev/) which are considered secure for the transmis-
       sion of certain authentication tokens.

       It is used by (some versions of) login(1) to restrict the terminals on which root is allowed to login.  See login.defs(5) if  you  use  the
       shadow suite.

       On  PAM	enabled  systems,  it  is  used  for  the  same purpose by pam_securetty(8) to restrict the terminals on which empty passwords are
       accepted.

FILES

       /etc/securetty

SEE ALSO

       login(1), login.defs(5), pam_securetty(8)

COLOPHON

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