From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 19 15:49:51 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA00258 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:49:51 -0800 Received: from moon.pr.erau.edu (moon.pr.erau.edu [192.101.135.8]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id PAA00252 for ; Thu, 19 Jan 1995 15:49:47 -0800 Received: by moon.pr.erau.edu (Smail3.1.29.1 #15) id m0rV6ZW-00047eC; Thu, 19 Jan 95 16:47 MST Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:47:22 -0700 (MST) From: Stephen Waits To: Ron Porter cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: refused telnet connections In-Reply-To: <9501192143.AA00621@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 19 Jan 1995, Ron Porter wrote: > to my telnet attempts from another computer. The problem is > that it will not allow me to login, even as root. > It just kkeps saying "login refused on this terminal". > do i need to add telnet users to some group or somthing? root logins are not allowed from anything other than the console. You'll need to add a user for yourself and login as that user, then su to root. You should, in general, not be logging in as root anyway (for various reasons). --Steve