From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 20 00:14:07 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA04850 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 00:14:07 -0800 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA04844 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 1995 00:14:02 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-6) id AA20862; Fri, 20 Jan 95 09:13:19 +0100 Received: by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (KAA06133); Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:18:52 +0100 Message-Id: <199501200918.KAA06133@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Subject: Re: refused telnet connections To: porter@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu (Ron Porter) Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:18:51 +0100 (MET) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (user alias) In-Reply-To: <9501192143.AA00621@fozzie.chem.wisc.edu> from "Ron Porter" at Jan 19, 95 03:43:53 pm From: Christoph Kukulies Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1123 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Hello, > I've got my FreeBSD1.1.5.1 machine so it will now respond > 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? > Thanks, Ron You must declare pseudoterminals in /etc/ttys as secure: ttyp0 none network secure ttyp1 none network secure etc.. etc.. Normally you can do this on the fly. Edit /etc/ttys accordingly and kill -HUP 1 (send init a hangup signal, then it will reread /etc/ttys) This may be insecure in a large network. The prefered method is to create a user, add it to the group wheel and then login and do > -- > [-Ron Porter-----------] > [-Univ. Of Wisconsin---] > [-Chemistry Dept.------] > [-Madison, Wi 53706----] > [-608-262-0190---------] > [-porter@chem.wisc.edu-] > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #1: Wed Jan 18 10:42:31 1995 kuku@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES i386