[X-Unix] >console login problems

[Justin Herald]

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#
#       @(#)ttys        5.2 (Berkeley) 6/10/93
#
# name  getty                           type    status          comments
#
# If the console is marked insecure, single-user requires
# the root password.
##
# Since DirectoryServices is not running by the time we enter
# single-user mode, init will ask for the non-shadow crypt
# password stored for root in /etc/master.passwd.  If no such
# password exists, it will not be possible to enter single-user
# mode from a console marked insecure.
##
#console        "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600"  vt100   on secure
console  
"/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/ 
loginwindo$
#tahoe's only

On Oct 7, 2004, at 11:58 PM, Eric Crist wrote:

> On Oct 7, 2004, at 9:17 PM, Justin Herald wrote:
>
>> Yea, I do have root enabled.
>>
>> I have to wonder if it has anything to do with /etc/ttys because i  
>> tried editing that file a while ago to accomplish no login window,  
>> but when I did that what happened was my screen flashed twice, then  
>> continued to boot up normally until it came to loading the login  
>> window then it made no more progress. Then I tried logging in with  
>> single user, but nothing would show up on my display. I was lucky  
>> that I always enable telnet, ssh, ftp, etc. I couldn't login with  
>> telnet from my linux machine with the ibook running on airport, so  
>> what I had to do was plug it into the router and change the comments  
>> back.
>>
>> Inconsequential, I know. But maybe that problem would shed light onto  
>> this current problem.
>>
>> On Oct 7, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Eric Crist wrote:
>>
>>> If you don't have the root account enabled, try that
>> -- Justin Herald
>
> Copy/paste your /etc/ttys file here and I'll take a look at it, if  
> you're still having problems.  When you try to boot into single user  
> mode, you need to press command-s AFTER the startup tone, and before  
> you get the gray screen with an apple (i.e. during the gray screen  
> without the apple.  If you press/hold the combination before the  
> startup tone, the system will hang)
>
> -----
> Eric F Crist
> Secure Computing Networks
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- -- Justin Herald

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