I wrote:
> A new problem -maybe linked with the one about NFS ??-
> Nobody changed anything in the system , as usual, but it is now
>impossible to login on the graphics console: it always says:
> - terminal is disabled -- see account manager -
>
> Of course, the :0 entry is present in the ttys files, and
> dxdevices seems to say it is correct.
>
(this is still D.U. 4.0)
>
> I can't figure out what is happening, and don't know where i could
>find information on the name of the terminal which is disabled.
finally, I understood that devices could be unlocked with dxdevices,
with modify devices, by clicking on a device and then on the edit button,
but *not* double-clicking on the device, which brings up a new window
from which the operation is impossible. You'll have to unlock a device
blindly, though, because there is no way to say if it is locked or not.
I don't know why my terminal that should be locked only 24 hours was still
locked 2 days after, so, anyway, I chose to migrate from ttys to ttys.db to
create a clean file.
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Randy M. Hayman (haymanr_at_icefog.alaska.edu) wrote:
>one way:
>provided you are not using the hashed device file.
>manually edit /etc/auth/system/ttys and remove the "t_failures#<digit>:"
>entry for the locked device.
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-Florian Fuchs (captain_at_sport3.uibk.ac.at) wrote:
To: MX%"gege_at_cal.enst.fr"
CC:
Subj: Re: console terminal is disabled -- see account administrator
>Well a while ago we had the same problem. One of our users logged in too
>often and therefore the console was locked. What we actually did was, we
>used dxdevices and changed the default setting after how many login
>failures a terminal should be locked to 0. After that we could login again.
>Another way would be to delete the /etc/auth/system/ttys.db and rebuild
>it with convauth -d t
Received on Mon Dec 09 1996 - 09:41:48 NZDT