If you get the login prompt when you try to telnet (I assume that's the
remote method you're using), then Linux is configured for remote access. The
"Login incorrect" message means that either the userid or the password you
entered was invalid (or at least that Linux thinks one of them is invalid).
Systems are often set up so that root cannot login directly via telnet --
for security reasons -- so focus on logging in as a user. Unfortunately (or
perhaps fortunately, as this too is a security issue), incorrect logins
don't generate any log entries on the Linux systems I'm familiar with, so
troubleshooting is a problem. If your sysyem is isolated enough for this to
be safe, try creating a user with no password and see it that userid can
telnet in. That would identify the problem as with the pssword portion of
the login.
Aside from that, I have no real advice to offer. The login app that is run
on telnet is the same one as runs from the console, so (except for the root
restriction) logins via the two methods should be the same. Have I made some
incorrect assumption about how you are trying to connect? Are you using any
non-ascii characters in your password?
At 09:15 AM 6/2/99 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to access my linux box from an tcp/ip ethernet node, but i get
>"login incorrect" all the time.
>I did not find a thing in linuxconf in order to allow root or any user to
>login-access linux remotelly.
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