Package: login Version: 1:4.8.1-1.1 (/usr/share/doc/login/copyright says This is Debian GNU/Linux's prepackaged version of the shadow utilities.
It was downloaded from: <ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/>. As of May 2007, this site is no longer available.) OK, I'll report the bug here: Let's say the system is so overloaded that... Login: root Login timed out after 60 seconds Yes, that's right, even before the password prompt appeared! So that timeout will prevent access to the whole system! So: at least don't timeout if you haven't asked for password yet! Thanks.