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Re: Newbee Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wittesaele Willy)
Sat Nov 2 14:35:32 1996
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 20:45:04 +0100 (MET)
From: Wittesaele Willy <wittesa@uia.ua.ac.be>
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On Fri, 1 Nov 1996, Shawn Higgin wrote:
> I am fairly new to the unix world. I am trying to learn how it all works.
> I have RH 4.0 Intel.
>
> I have tried SEVERAL version of Linux such as Slackware, Yggdrasil, etc and
> have never have one install properly the first time until I installed
> REDHAT! Excellent job on the install...
>
> Question: When I telnet into my linux box and try to login as root, I just
> get a "login incorrect" everytime no matter what I try to login as. Is
> there some kind of security file that I need to modify?
>
> Any help would be greatly appriciated. TIA!
>
> Shawn Higgin
> shiggin@laserboard.com
>
hello ,
when you make the connection over a serial line then you have to put
the device name in /etc/securetty
willy
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