Comment 4 for bug 104957

Isn't this a PAM bug?

I get the same result as Kristian Erik Hermansen above, namely that login is rejected by pam_securetty. However, I do not quite see why pam_securetty should be run.

> grep -r pam_securetty /etc/pam.d
/etc/pam.d/login:auth requisite pam_securetty.so

So, if I am not mistaken, pam_securetty should only be run for the "login" service, not for gdm.
Also, /usr/share/doc/libpam-doc/html/pam-6.html#ss6.23 states for the pam_securetty module: "Provides standard Unix securetty checking, which causes authentication for root to fail unless PAM_TTY is set to a string listed in the /etc/securetty file. For all other users, it succeeds."

So pam_securetty should not be run at all, and it should certainly not fail.