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loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

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Installing Arch over ttyUSB0, archiso password?

I'm having to install Arch by using a USB to TTL FTDI cable over ttyUSB0.

I'm confronted by:

archiso login:

I have tried the usual combinations of 'root' and blank etc. Nothing works, and I can't find anything else in the Arch Wiki that helps.

Any ideas?

Last edited by loadlover (2019-08-17 17:36:52)

ewaller

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Re: Installing Arch over ttyUSB0, archiso password?

When last I checked, it was root with a blank password.

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loadlover

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Registered: 2017-05-10

Posts: 103

Re: Installing Arch over ttyUSB0, archiso password?

When last I checked, it was root with a blank password.

Sadly this doesn't work.

And oddly, when I type 'root' for the username, it goes straight to 'Login incorrect' without asking for a password.

What fresh hell is this?

seth

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Re: Installing Arch over ttyUSB0, archiso password?

I guess pam_securetty.so kicks in in that setup, try to disable/comment it everywhere in the isos /etc/pam.d/*

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