First, give up on logging in as root over telnet unless you want to ignore about a dozen rules of thumb for computer security and override one or two built in safties. As for normal users, I haven't needed any special perms to get a few dozen friends to log into my box: you're sure that you have telnetd installed? Perhaps the remote host is in hosts.deny (it sounds like that might be the prob, but I really don't know for sure)? If you really need to use the root account, first login as a user, then su. HTH
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harte, Tiemen wrote: > Hi Debian people, > > I'm trying to telnet to my debian PC. > I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or a > other account created with adduser. > It's like my password is wrong, i keep getting the message "access denied". > > Do I need to give the account the rights to login via telnet from another > computer? > And if that's it, what do I need to change? > > Groetjes, Tiemen > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > <a mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Who is John Galt?</a> Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product. -- Ferenc Mantfeld
