rickgc@calweb.com (Rick Copeland) wrote:

>At 04:09 PM 1/17/98 -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
>>On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 16:10:40 -0800 (PST) 
>> rickgc@calweb.com (Rick Copeland) wrote:
>> >         rgc login refused on this terminal.
>> > 
>> > Can anyone tell me why RGC is refused at the terminal(Windows 95) when FTP
>> > will work just fine from the same terminal (Windows 95)?
>>
>>Does "rgc" have a uid of 0?
>I am not sure what you are asking for, if uid is "user ID" then my next
>guess would be that  "rgc:*:0:0:Captain Network:/usr/home:/bin/csh" might
>contain the "UID"?

Yes, the 3rd field is the uid and the 4th is the primary gid (group id).

Your problem is that the pseudo ttys are not marked secure and hence you can't login as root (uid 0).

You should probably change the uid for rgc.
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