[ale] no login and do_ypcall?

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I needed to telnet into my Linux box as root, but /etc/securtty wasn't set
up for that.  I didn't get any flaky error messages, though; it just said
'login incorrect' just like it does when your password doesn't match.

Best of luck.

At 08:17 PM 10/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>I have tty1 - tty8 in there and uncommented.  I'm running kernel
>2.1.123.  Any thoughts?
>
>
>Thus spake Mofid Francis (mfrancis at engr.csulb.edu):
>
>> check to see if the console is contented in the securtty in /etc. 
>> i hope this hopes.
>> moe
>> 
>> On Sun,
>> 4 Oct 1998, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
>> 
>> > I'm installing RH-5.1 on my Laptop and hit a snag.  When I log in on the 
>> > console It takes a bit, I get:
>> > 
>> > do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Timed Out
>> > 
>> > and then I get the login prompt back. I can rsh and telnet in, just can't
>> > login from the console.  Anyone have any ideas?
>> > 
>> > The Syslog reports  nothing.
>> > 
>> > Robert
>> > 
>> >
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>> > Robert L. Harris                |   You mean you paid
>> > Senior System Administrator II  |        MONEY for 
>> >   at Great West Life.           \_    Service Pack '98???
>> > 
>> > http://www.orci.com/~nomad
>> > 
>> > DISCLAIMER:
>> >       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>> > 
>> > FYI:
>> >  perl -e 'print
$i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>> > 
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>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Robert L. Harris                |   You mean you paid
>Senior System Administrator II  |        MONEY for 
>  at Great West Life.           \_    Service Pack '98???
>
>http://www.orci.com/~nomad
>
>DISCLAIMER:
>      These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
>
>FYI:
> perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
>


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