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Date:      Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:34:11 -0400
From:      Roman Katsnelson <romank@graphnet.com>
To:        "Gene Byers Jr." <BYERS@OIR.STATE.SC.US>, "q's" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: telnetd question
Message-ID:  <36221363.B2FE8B17@graphnet.com>
References:  <s621d56c.098@gw.state.sc.us>

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are you trying to log in as root or a regular user? If you're going as
root, that will explain your problem. You can't log in as root via
telnet. If you need root priviliges, log in as any user in group "wheel"
and then use "su" to promote yourself to root.

Good luck,
Roman

Gene Byers Jr. wrote:
> 
> I'm kinda new to unix and FreeBSD, and I was wondering if you might have any ideas about a problem I'm having with telnet.
> 
> I have my secondary DNS running on FreeBSD. When I try to telnet into it, it gives me the login prompt, but when I enter the correct password, it tells me the password is incorrect and prompts me with another login prompt.
> 
> Do you have any ideas?
> 
> Sincerely,
> Gene Byers....
> OIR Network Management
> 
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