On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Chris Jewell wrote:
> I am using MacBSD on a IIci and it runs very well.  I cannot, however,
> telnet in from other machines.  I can get to the login and password prompts
> but, then I get a message saying that login is not allowed from that
> terminal.  Do I need to set up telnetd?  If so how do I do that?  I do have
> MacBSD running in multi-user mode so I know that is not the problem.
> 
> -Chris Jewell

Are you trying to log in as root by any chance? Any tty not marked as
"secure" in /etc/ttys will reject root logins. I think there's some way to
disable this behavior in the kernel, or you can mark all the ttys as
secure. The best solution is to use su or sudo, however. ;)

-Xiamin