I know on Slink I can't login as root because of the way login is configured. Can you log in as a regular user and then use 'su'? That would be my uneducated guess as to your problem.
On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Benjamin Suto wrote: > > I've been keeping up to date with the Potato release, and I've recently > upgraded to the newest distribution sometime yesterday, March 12. > > Now, when I try to telnet/ssh in, I get an immediate disconnection, and > the following message in my system logs. > > Mar 13 23:00:12 edgy inetd[27942]: getpwnam: root: No such user > > I tried replacing the in.telnetd, but that doesn't seem to be the > problem. Does anyone know where I should look? > > Ben > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >