/etc/securetty does not work. why ?

[Juan Manuel López]

Hi all.
I have deactivated telnet access:
inetd.conf : # telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/lbin/telnetd telnetd -b /etc/issue

No problem.

Also deactivate the root access from tty:
/etc/securetty: /dev/console

I have restart the inetd : inetd -c

And I can not access from tty ( rigth ). So I can NOT access from console ??? Why ?

Thanks in advance.

Juanma.

[Patrick Wallek · Accepted solution]

Your /etc/securetty should look like this:

# cat /etc/securetty
console
#

Note that there is no /dev/ in front of the word console. Try it like this and see what happens.

[Ashwani Kashyap]

THe entry in /etc/securetty is just console and nothing else .

Try that .