On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Erik M. Winkler wrote:

> I'm trying to telnet to my Mac BSD box using BetterTelnet on a PowerMac
> and even though I've created a user account, I keep getting refused a
> telnet session. The error is something like "unable to create console on
> tty* ....". This is quite different from the "login refused" error if
> the username/password are incorrect.  Do I need to add my user account
> to a particular group?  Thanks for any help you can provide. 

Please wrap your paragraphs. :-)

What is the exact mesage? tty what?

Try cd'ing to /dev and see how many pty*'s and ttyp*'s there are. If there
aren't any (or aren't enough) try "sh ./MAKEDEV pty0".

Take care,

Bill