Has somebody set the login timeout to, say, 1 second? That would explain
it.
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rohit [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 10:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [LIH] Re. Peculiar Problem
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> "Dr. S.Krishnan" wrote:
> > Thanks for your message - the problem is more acute. This is
> > happening with whatever login
> > I type - the system gives again the login prompt.
>
> Check if the problem is there with rlogin too, if the machine is online.
> If ftp is enabled, try ftping /etc/inittab /etc/profile etc files and if
> there
> are problems, see if you can overwrite these with your tweaked files.
>
> I would have done that.
>
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