Great information as a newbie studing Linux I did not understand why I could
not telnet in as root either, I tried Chad's suggestion and got right in.


----- Original Message -----
From: Chad Juettner <chad at bitstream.net>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:14 PM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20646] Root login


> > When I telnet to my machine from outside using the IP address,
> > I cannot login as a root although I supply the correct password.
> > Is there something I am doing wrong? I use "root" as login and
> > my root password.
>
> Comment out the following line in /etc/pam.d/login:
>
> auth    required    /lib/security/pam_securetty.so
>
> That's what worked for me.
>
>
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