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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:27:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Jeff Pappas <jpappas@alsnet.com>
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Subject: Re: login doesn't prompt for password on console
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Please wrap your lines. Thanks.

On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Jeff Pappas wrote:

> I have freebsd-2.2.5 (I'm planning on upgrading)
> 
> Just a couple of days ago I noticed that I can't login from telnet or
> the console.
> 
> When I try to login from the console I get no response after entering
> my login name (other than carriage returns).  No password prompt.  Of
> course Ctrl-C works as it should.

... ie, what happens?

If just hit <return> at a blank prompt, do you get another?

This smells like a broken NIS setup.

> When I try to login from telnet to the telnet port, I get the FreeBSD
> welcome message but no login prompt.  Telnetting to port 25 to
> sendmail seems to work as it should.
> 
> All other functionality seems to work properly, http, ftp, ping, etc.
> 
> I know how to get access to my server using -s at boot but I don't
> seem to find any problems other than my root file system was 90% full.  
> I fixed that problem.

Any odd log messages?  Particularly about NIS?

Doug White                               
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