56273 – shadow doesn't enable root login on serial console

Bug 56273 - shadow doesn't enable root login on serial console

Summary: shadow doesn't enable root login on serial console

Status:	VERIFIED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	PPC64 All

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	ppc64 architecture team

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Reported:	2004-07-06 13:48 UTC by Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED)
Modified:	2004-07-13 20:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Proposed patch (shadow-ppc64.patch,466 bytes, patch) 2004-07-06 13:49 UTC, Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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Description Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-06 13:48:45 UTC

The shadow ebuild creates/modifies /etc/securetty, which by default doesn't include ttyS0 / tts/0 for ppc64.
This would simplify the install procedure for ppc64 systems.

Comment 1 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-06 13:49:23 UTC

Created attachment 34883 [details, diff]
Proposed patch

Proposed patch to fix it.

Comment 2 Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-12 19:49:38 UTC

thanks Gustavoz!

Comment 3 Tom Gall (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-07-12 19:50:00 UTC

stick a fork in it