on 1/19/00 6:33 AM, Rick Copeland at rickgc@calweb.com wrote:

> I have loaded an older version of NetBSD (1.3, yes I know it is old) on one
> of my uVAX 3600's and it boots up fine and produces a login prompt.  When I
> login in as "root" and hit enter for the first time I get the following:
> 
> login: root
> root login refused on this terminal
> login: LOGIN root REFUSED ON TTY ttySf
> 
> What is "ttySf"? I have gone in as single user and checked out /etc/ttys,
> but there does not appear to be a "ttySf" that I can find.
> 
> Also, I have a laptop connnected to the 3600 as a console, I use it with my
> other 3600's and it works just fine (using the same version of NetBSD).
> Can anyone tell me what the problem might be and how to fix it?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> RiCo 
> 

    The problem is that you cannot log in as root from either Telnet or FTP.
FTP I think you can remove root security. Telnet I don't think you can. If
you are using Kerberos or ssh you might be able to, I'm not sure. The
question is, why would you want to? Its works safer to su like you should.
That's my opinion anyway.


    Chris