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Re: Telnet from M$win to Debian (newbie)



First, give up on logging in as root over telnet unless you want to ignore
about a dozen rules of thumb for computer security and override one or two
built in safties.  As for normal users, I haven't needed any special perms
to get a few dozen friends to log into my box:  you're sure that you have
telnetd installed?  Perhaps the remote host is in hosts.deny (it sounds
like that might be the prob, but I really don't know for sure)?  If you
really need to use the root account, first login as a user, then su.  HTH  

On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Harte, Tiemen wrote:

> Hi Debian people,
> 
> I'm trying to telnet to my debian PC.
> I can get the login screen but I can't log in with the ROOT account or a
> other account created with adduser.
> It's like my password is wrong, i keep getting the message "access denied".
> 
> Do I need to give the account the rights to login via telnet from another
> computer?
> And if that's it, what do I need to change?
> 
> Groetjes, Tiemen
> 
> 
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