[fedora-arm] Help configuring a serial port on an ARM device running Fedora 17

[Alex Villací­s Lasso]

El 26/03/13 17:00, Brendan Conoboy escribió:
> On 03/26/2013 02:57 PM, Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:
>> So I am at a loss about why ttyS2 works and ttyS1 does not. As
>> far as I can tell with strace, both instances receive the username and
>> the password correctly. What can I do to diagnose this further? Do I
>> need to modify something else to enable the second login tty?
>
> Check /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure.  Assuming you typed the right password, it's probably an issue with root logging into an "unsecure" tty or some pam issue.  Are you logging in as root or as an unprivileged user?  This doesn't seem arm specific.
>
Thanks for making me look into /var/log/secure. It was rejecting the root login claiming that "tty 'tty1' is not secure". I then found out about /etc/securetty and added ttyS0..ttyS2 to it, and it worked.