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From: Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
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Subject: Re: root Telnet into FreeBSD
To: support@sensorsoft.com (Paul Gilletti)
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 1998 22:47:19 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <E0xpotD-0006ep-00@mail.istar.ca> from "Paul Gilletti" at Jan 7, 98 01:22:56 am
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You login as an account that is of the group 0 then say "su -" and 
enter the root password.

> We have installed FreeBSD from your Walnet Creek CD-ROM. We are trying to
> login to the FreeBSD box (as root,with correct password) using telnet from a
> Sun and SCO box on our LAN. The login prompt shows up on the SUN or SCO side
> and we attempt to login, but get a login failure. On the FreeBSD console it
> says that the login was rejected, even though we set the following in the
> file /etc/login.access on the FreeBSD box;
> 
> +:root:ALL
> 
> How do we overcome this problem?
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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