Re: Telneting

[adm ipat com (Alan Mead)]

On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:20:15 -0500, sgrose cmps com ("Steve Grose")
wrote:

>I have a new install of Linux 5.2. When trying to telnet from my win98
>machine I receive a log in prompt. But Linux will not accept my user name
>and password. Is there something else I must configure to allow incoming
>telnet sessions?

You shouldn't need to.  What do your logs say?  Did you use adduser to
add the user?  Did you then set the password as root with passwd?

Unless your trying to log on as root:  your system is undoubtedly
configured not accept root logons from some terminals (probably only
console).  You can logon as a more pedestrian user and su to root.

-Alan Mead