inittable and login problem

[Lei Sun]

I do have /dev/ttyS1 and /dev/ttyS2,  I haven't checked permission bit
on /dev/ttyS0 yet.

I found out that if i directly run  "login" in shell, or I telnet into
the box, I got login prompt, but I got "incorrect password" error
after I typed password, however, I can FTP into the box , it accept my
ftp's password.  I assume ftp and telnet should share the same
password (it's not shadowed). But they behave differenctly ,  I guess
this has something to do with the login program.

Any suggestion?

Thanks!
lei

On 7/31/06, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 July 2006 1:05 pm, Lei Sun wrote:
> > Hi:
> >    My inittab contain following line
> >
> > tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
> > tty2::respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty2
> >
> > # Put a getty on the serial port
> > ttyS0::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 115200 vt100
> >
> > when i boot up, it keep poping up
> > "bumper, cannot open /dev/tty1"
> > "bumper, cannot open /dev/tty2"
>
> Do you have a /dev/tty1 or /dev/tty2?
>
> > I was using serial console on a MPC8260ADS board, if I comment out
> > those 2 tty line, I can get login prompt, but after I typed in user
> > name, the password prompt came out(prepended with a wide space), but
> > it won't accept any thing I typed in, and after 60 seconds, login
> > expired.
>
> What are the permissions on /dev/ttyS0?
>
> Rob
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