Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 12:23:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Sushmala Yarramreddy <ysr@cise.ufl.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot login as root. Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970702122130.19673F-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970702133238.10808A-100000@tangerine.cise.ufl.edu>
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On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Sushmala Yarramreddy wrote: > We have installed FreeBSD-2.2.2 on one of our machines. > I have the root password for the machine but when i login as root > and type in the root passwd it gives back the original login screen. > I cannot directly login as root. why is it so? What's the message you get? One of these? login: root Password: Login incorrect If this you really don't have the root password. login: root Password: root login refused on this terminal. If this one, then your system is correctly configured and you can't login as root from a telnet session. Login as a normal user and su. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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