so if I understand correctly, you do something like

%  telnet machine_name

then you get a "login: " prompt, you enter the username, get a "password:"
promt, give it the correct password and it refuses the login?  something
like:

login: root
Password:
root login refused on this terminal.

If this is what you're seeing, then it means that 
1)  your account has user ID 0 (ie its root)

and 

2) /etc/ttys

doesn't have a "secure" entry for the ttyp that you're logging into.
Note: don't add the "secure" entry.  Instead create an account with a user
ID which isn't 0.


-Dan


On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Richard PLOIX wrote:

> Hello,
> My config:
>  RISCPC SA, NetBSD 1.4.1, 32 MB, 2MB, 8.4 GB IDE &
>  Compaq Contura aero 4/33c, NetBSD 1.4.1, 8 MB, 300 MB IDE
> I can't make a link via TELNET between the two machines.
> I have a account like ROOT but its name is system and is password
> is system.
> After I put in the login (system),
> I put in the password (system),
> and then the link was refused.
> I try this from the RISCPC and fron THE Compaq-PC.
> I have try FTP before, it's OK.
> I have a modemless link PPP between the two machines.
> This is just after the installation.
> In a FreeBSD book, I found some help, but it not the same as NetBSD.
> I have no file .telnetrc, is this the problem?
> Thank's for the help.
> Ric.
>  
>