At 04:07 PM 2/12/99 -0500, Doin' the bull dance, feelin' the flow... wrote:
>Please reply to me in private, as I no longer get any mail from the
>list...thanks.
Try resubscribing. To judge from the regular comments about similar
experiences, it looks like the software quickly drops addresses that bounce,
so even short interruptions in your e-mail connectivity can cause you to
lose your sub. This is only a guess, though ... does anyone know for sure?
>except I have one problem... no one can log
>in remotely. No ssh. No telnet. It's a bit annoying. Anonymous ftp
>does work if that helps to identify the problem...
>Anyhow, here's the deal: people can connect. They get the little login
>prompt, it accepts their username and password and even if it is correct,
>it says, "login incorrect." And that is that.
If people get the login: prompt, then telnet itself is working. You can
check this by looking for messages from telnetd in /var/log/messages . The
problem you are having is with login, and that's where you should
concentrate your efforts.
Since you seem to be able to log in okay from the console, a lot of possible
causes are eliminated. The only thing I can think of is the possibility that
whatever people are trying to log in from (a terminal? another computer
running terminal software?) is set to send a CR/LF pair, instead of the Unix
standard LF only. (A colleague had this problem when he tried to attach an
old serial terminal to a serial port.) You might attend a bit more closely
to the hosts that others are trying to log in from.
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