On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:20:32PM +0300, Elad Efrat wrote:
> Why? Is there a reason to provide different messages on login failures?

No, but there should be a proper error message loged somewhere - so the
newbie system adminstrator that finds himself logged out off ttyE2 (or
what have you - IMHO the telnet example is ~irrelevant nowadays) has
a chance to learn the cause of his problem and fix it.

Martin