According to Michael B. Trausch: While burning my CPU.
>
> Sir,
>
> You may have to edit the file /etc/securetty... add the ttyS# device that
> you are trying to log in from to this file. That's what I had to do in
> order to login on my Linux 2.0.36 Red Hat machine.
The way around your problem is to login as "user" then use 'su - root'.
/etc/secruetty is only for root. 'man securetty' explanes that.
"Login Incorrect" is the problem here, which can be caused by many things.
Permissions of /etc/passwd not being -rw-r--r-- is one, another is that
there is a file in /etc which locks the passwd file, of which i cant
remember the dam name, if it is there then you will not be able to login,
its called something like passwd.lock, it is a result of changing passwds
with the passwd program. As to why it stays in /etc sometimes i just dont
know, i have had problems with that myself.
A beter explanation of the problem might lead to a beter answer.
FTP has really nothing in common with the telnet login.
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> - Mike Trausch
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> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Baw wrote:
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> >
> > I have trouble starting an interactive session with a unix box.
> > The linux box now runs Linux 2.1.126. User programs are from
> > the Slackware distribution.
> >
> > Login via FTP with same username and password works, but
> > login from the console or through telnet always throw me back
> > to the login prompt with the message "Login incorrect."
> > I've tried both login as a regular and directly as root and
> > checked the /etc/login.* files (can't find anything wrong there
> > myself).
A default /etc/login.defs is normaly 0 bytes.
> > Neither works. Any advise on how to trouble shoot and what to
> > look for will be much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Baw
> >
>
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