Re: [Help!]Free Soralis 9 says "Not on system console"!

From: scriptOmatic (ScriptOmatic_at_ChironComputing.Com)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:11:19 GMT

TheCageyBee wrote:
>
> are you trying to telnet into solaris as root ? there may be a file in the
> /etc directory that controls access to the root account through telnet.
>
> "Anonyman" <anonyman@somwhere.com> wrote in message
> news:bfti7n$jle$1@newsl.dti.ne.jp...
> > Hello!
> >
> > When I try to telnet to Free Solaris 9, it says "Not on system console"
> > after inputting id and pswd.
> > From Win-xp and Free Solaris itself it says same thing.
> > What's wrong!?
> >
> > If anybody knows,please let me know!
> >

The file is /etc/default/login

# CONSOLE=/dev/console # make into a comment, no need to reboot 

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