Hi, Did you check /var/log/messages (or where ever this agetty puts the logs) for some spurious messages. If not please try it and see if some thing comes there when you try logging in Regards KK On Friday 22 November 2002 03:46 pm, Jeffrey Lim wrote: > hi guys, i've been taking a look at logging in over the serial but am > encountering some problems. > > I've enabled console over serial for the kernel, and am running agetty > over the serial to accept logins: > > agetty 115200 ttyS0 vt100 > > When i call up my terminal program (in this case hyperterminal (no flames > pls)) i see the prompt and proceed to login. The problem is, i keep > getting a "Login incorrect" message - even if i know that my pass is > correct! (I login with the same name and pass on keyboard and monitor and > i get through) > > It doesnt seem to be a case with the login binary, since both mingetty > (which is what is used for the virtual console) and agetty both use this > same binary. > > It doesnt seem to be a problem with hyperterm as well, since i set the > terminal emulation to vt100 (i've also tried with "auto detect") > > One strange thing (that i've yet to figure out) is that the moment i hit > "enter" after entering the user id at the terminal, i will automatically > logout from the shell from which i launched agetty! > > Has anybody tried logging in over the serial and succeeded? I am kind of > stumped right now and would certainly appreciate some help. > > thanks > -jf -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
