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Article #47572Re: Telnet login trouble
From: Stephen Schwetz
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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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