Off Topic Telnet problems

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bill Campbell propounded (on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:50:10AM -0700):
| 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???

Guy, why did you omit telling us what version/release of whose Unix you
have?

And if it is OSR 5, doesn't TA 105544 have the answer, which is just as
Bill recalled?

-- 
JP