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Article #47590Re: Telnet login trouble
From: DaZZa
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:00
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Stephen Schwetz wrote: You can if you modify the appropriate permission file. > 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. > > > > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ +- Darren Gibbs +- "I've been walkin' in the footsteps." -+ +- aka +- "Of society's lies." -+ +- Thunder Downunder +- "I don't like what I see no more." -+ +- Thunder +- "Sometimes I wish I was blind." -+ +- dazza@zip.com.au +- -+ +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ NT vs Unix: It doesnt matter how big or hot it is, if it doesnt stay up it doesnt perform.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,7e9662088502013f X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: DaZZa <dazza@zipper.zip.com.au> Subject: Re: Telnet login trouble Date: 1999/01/07 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.990107131901.4808C-100000@zipper.zip.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 429645885 References: <3691F47C.580AF856@worldnet.att.net> <BLyk2.120$YE1.4689@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net> <915658324.902514@smiggly.aljan.com.au> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Organization: The Zipsters Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux