Root cant login from GSP console

[Craig A. Sharp]

All of a sudden I am not able to login to root from the GSP. If I ssh into the box directly, root can login just fine.

Any ideas?

[Aussan]

Hi Craig
what prompt do you get at the GSP before you login

the first one is usually admin, then you login as root

[Craig A. Sharp]

I get past the Admin login and get to the actual console login prompt..it is at that point that root cant login.

[Patrick Wallek]

OK. So what error, if any do you get?

Does your password contain any special characters, like a ! or an @? If so, change your password to something without any special characters and see what happens.

[Craig A. Sharp]

No error and no special characters...it just keeps asking for the password. The strange thing is that if I ssh direct to the box such as ssh root@X.X.X.X, it works fine. This is only happening at the console.

[Aussan]

is this a trusted system

and did you put root restrictions
look in /etc
is there a file called securetty

if so, what's in it

[Jeff_Traigle]

Check /etc/securetty. Maybe someone munged the console entry. Should be simply a line like:

console

[Craig A. Sharp]

securtty is good and no its not a trusted system. It does use ldap but it looks at files first. Since I can login from a direct ssh session, I would expect that ldap is not a factor.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I assume that this is a trusted system. Check to make sure that there is a console entry in /tcb/files/ttys and /tcb/files/devassign.

Is there a bogus (misspelled?) console entry in /etc/securetty?

[Craig A. Sharp]

Its not a trusted system. I have double checked the /etc/securetty file.