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Re: Telnet login trouble

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From: Stephen Schwetz
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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you can't login as the superuser either (root)

stephen schwetz

Mediocrates wrote in message ...
>Have you allowed telnet access for local use? Ie in /etc/hosts.allow do
>you have the line
>ALL: LOCAL
>Secondly look at your log file in /var/log (the information you've given
>isn't sufficient to tell why it's giving an incorrect login message).
>I's also check that your loopback device is configured correctly by
>running ifconfig as root. You should see something like :
>
>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Bcast:127.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
>          UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3584  Metric:1
>          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Matt.
>
>
>--
>"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one
> instruction -- from which, by induction, one can deduce that every
> program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work."
>                -- Anon.
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