That was it - Thanks!!
Alan
-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent A.Primavera [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 9:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Security Question and SCSI Tape Utilities
Hello,
Check /etc/securetty. It lists the terminals that root can login
from. Let
me know how you make out.
Thank You,
Vincent A. Primavera
On Tuesday 07 November 2000 08:59, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As I'm sure you all know I'm fairly new to Linux and I have a couple of
> simple questions.
>
> First - I've installed Mandrake 7.1 on a compaq ML370 using the high
> security option. The only thing I cannot do is telnet to the server from
a
> different machine and log in as root, it establishes connection, but I
> cannot log in as root. I've checked /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny
> and they allow everything in (otherwise I could not connect...), and I've
> looked at the files in /etc/security and they seem to be fine. All of the
> lines in /etc/security/access.conf are commented out, so I assume that
root
> should be allowed to telnet in. I must be missing something very basic!
>
> Second - the above server is used as a device server for a tape drive for
> our backup system, but when I installed Mandrake 7.1 the SCSI tape
> utilities (mt, stinint...) were not installed and nor were the man pages.
> Does anybody know what rpm they're in?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Alan
