On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Alexjan Carraturo [off-list ref] wrote:
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ls -l /dev/ttyAMA0
ls -l /dev/tty
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 204, 64 ?6 mag 15.45 ttyAMA0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 4, 1 ?6 mag 15.45 tty1
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Next step, is to get a working shell, and run "strace passwd".
Why do you think that may be useful?
Because then you would notice (*) that login tries to open "/dev/tty"
fails and then the login aborts.
(*) at least that is what I saw in my case, and this is what I used to
debug the "telnet not logging in" problem I had