Benjamin Suto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 think you need to restart inetd and sshd. I had this same problem, so I used it as an opportunity to upgrade to 2.2.3 and reboot, and then everything worked again. -- Jeff Lessem.