HP Integrated Lights Out cannot login with root!

[Michael G Jaynes]

Hello, we are running HP-UX 11.23 and I cannot login through the remote console on the management processor. It gives the error, Login Incorrect. I can however login with a different username and su to the root account so I know the password is correct. Any ideas?

[Torsten.]

Do you have any "@" or "#" in your password?
This will break the getty.

[Michael G Jaynes]

Actually, yes. But this has always worked in the past by placing a '\' in front and it works on my other systems. I saw that in the sshd_config file I have PermitRootLogin NO and I commented it out.

[rick jones · Accepted solution]

sshd's config file should not be at issue here since if you are tring to login on the console via the MP you aren't ssh'ing to the host system.

(as an asside, you may want to check the manpages for sshd and/or its config file to see if the default for what you commented-out is "yes" or if you have to state "yes" explicitly...)

The question about special characters seems telling - just for a test you might try setting the root password to something without special characters in it and see if that works on the console via the MP.

Apart from that, you might see if there is some sort of "securetty" functionality under HP-UX...

[Michael G Jaynes]

Thank you. I added console to the /stc/securetty file and can now access the console as the root user. Thanks again.