Re: [LUG] Apache 1.3

[Jon Still <jon-pop@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can't login as root over a network.

Log in locally, do 'adduser psutton', then 'passwd psutton'

This should work.  Once you've logged in over the network, you can then 
do 'su -' to get to root, after entering the root password.

Jon.


On Friday, Oct 11, 2002, at 23:22 Europe/London, psutton wrote:

> Hi
>
> Just got this working,   under rhl 6.
>
> it seems to be working ok at present.  however I don't seem to be able 
> to
> telnet from my laptop running windows 98se to the apache server 
> running rhl
> 6 and apache 1.3.  I can get to the login prompt, (which is the 
> farthest I
> have ever got with this) but can't login,  I think it has something to 
> do
> with authentication, can anyone suggest anything please? I also get
> disconnected after a few attempts or possibly a certain amount of 
> time,  or
> perhaps I just can't login as root over a network
>
> It seems I have finally managed to set Linux up to do something useful,
> it's a kind of good feeling,  and boosts confidence.
>
> thanks Paul
>
>
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