On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 03:44:54PM -0700, Fred Herman wrote:
> While logging into a tty and talking on the phone, I managed to type the
> password incorrectly 3-4 times. Now that TTY is totally non-responsive
> (I assume a security feature). The other TTY's are OK and I have found
> nothing in the system that is locking out the one TTY. Short or
> rebooting, how do I recover this TTY.
try killing the mingetty running on that console. init should start another
one.
ix% ps ax|grep mingetty
688 tty3 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
689 tty4 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
690 tty5 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
691 tty6 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
769 tty1 SW 0:00 [mingetty]
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