Re: Upgraded Potato, now I can't telnet/ssh in

[Jeff Lessem <Jeff.Lessem+usenet@Colorado.EDU>]

Benjamin Suto <ben@amvalue.com> writes:

> I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently
> upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. 
> 
> Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and
> the following message in my system logs.
> 
> Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam: root: No such user

I think you need to restart inetd and sshd.  I had this same problem,
so I used it as an opportunity to upgrade to 2.2.3 and reboot, and
then everything worked again.

-- 
Jeff Lessem.