Re: how to give su permissions to debugging console

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Pradeep Kumar <pradeepkernel@gmail.com> wrote:

          I'm using serial console uart as debugging console. I have enabled command line with CONFIG_CMDLINE="console=ttyS0,115200n8" config. console is coming up but I'm unable to get su permissions by default. am I missing something???

What do you mean by "su permissions"? Are you talking about the login shell? If so, check that 1) You have a line spawning a getty for ttyS0 in /etc/inittab 2) ttyS0 is listed in /etc/securetty Hope this helps, Alex.