Off Topic Telnet problems

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009, Guy Templin wrote:
>
>   I know this is off topic, however I know there are many out there
>   using some telnet to login to Unix boxes. I have a problem this
>   morning that the Unix will not login any telnet sessions. It will
>   acknowledge the request and give a login prompt. After putting in the
>   user name it returns the following message "Terminal ttyp0 is disabled
>   - see Account Administrator"  trying to enable the port ttyp0 gives an
>   error message the ttyp0 is not a valid terminal. I have rebooted the
>   system and it continues to give the same results.

Is this a SCO OpenServer box?

I seem to remember something where they would disable ports after
too many failed login attempts or some such, but do not remember
what the fix was other than one goes into scoadmin to fix it.

JP???

Bill
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