Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:27:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Jeff Pappas <jpappas@alsnet.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: login doesn't prompt for password on console Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904121126370.3957-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <004001be835d$af52f800$97e157cf@bugs.alsnet.com>
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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 Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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