Subject: Re: Help with setting up telnet...
To: Chris Jewell <jewellce@esvax.es.dupont.com>
From: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/18/1997 14:55:32
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Chris Jewell wrote:
> I am using MacBSD on a IIci and it runs very well. I cannot, however,
> telnet in from other machines. I can get to the login and password prompts
> but, then I get a message saying that login is not allowed from that
> terminal. Do I need to set up telnetd? If so how do I do that? I do have
> MacBSD running in multi-user mode so I know that is not the problem.
You can't login as root from anything other than console, for security
reasons. Add a user to /etc/passwd and login with that, and it should
work. If that's not the problem, dunno.
David
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