From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 12 07:34:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02218 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:34:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from netra.graphnet.com (netra.graphnet.com [192.206.112.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02213 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 07:34:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from romank@graphnet.com) Received: from graphnet.com (roman.graphnet.com [192.206.112.93]) by netra.graphnet.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA25999; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:34:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <36221363.B2FE8B17@graphnet.com> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:34:11 -0400 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Graphnet, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Gene Byers Jr." , "q's" Subject: Re: telnetd question References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message