update on the SCO mounting hd thing...

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010, John Esak wrote:
>Well, now this is really stupid.  Actually, I had not forgotten my password.
>And my friend Jason has been saying there is no way the password could have
>been changed.  It really wasn't. Once I put it to something known... I
>*still* couldn't login.  The problem there was a conditional "exit" in the
>/etc/profile to only allow logins from several machines... Period. It did
>not include the console!!  So, I was just exiting at every login/password
>combination.  Too wierdc.

Does SCO have the /etc/securetty file?  I hadn't thought about
that in years.  Not having the console in it boggles the mind.

Bill
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