[kmscon-devel] /bin/login always runs on /dev/pts/X

[zhang xiong]

Thanks for your reply.

Yes, this only restricts root-logins. Normal user can login.
Your two suggestions work for me.

thanks


2014-05-27 19:44 GMT+08:00 David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com>:

> Hi
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 12:03 PM, zhang xiong <panda0626 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Recently I face an issue on kmscon:
> >
> > When I run kmscon, a login terminal pop up immediately. But my user
> account
> > and password can't log in.
> >
> > Then I found login always runa on /dev/pts/X, but /dev/pts/x isn't in
> > /etc/securetty, so I can't login.
> >
> > How can I let /bin/login run on /dev/ttyX ?
>
> First of all, this only restricts root-logins. You should be able to
> use your normal user as login, right?
>
> To allow root-logins, either add "/dev/pts/0" up to "/dev/pts/20" to
> /etc/securetty (which is a hack!) or, more appropriately, remove this
> line:
>     auth       required     pam_securetty.so
> from /etc/pam.d/login.
>
> Note that /etc/securetty and pam_securetty is crap (in my opinion).
> It's a totally useless way to prevent root-logins. You should protect
> root-logins with a proper authentication-scheme, instead of relying on
> filters like /etc/securetty (which, btw, don't protect against "sudo"
> and "su"..).
>
> Thanks
> David
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