Thanks for your help. The system rebooted and let me in. It looks like the problem was with ssltelnet/ssleay. I can't find a "reason" tough why but when I took it off and replaced it with the regualr telnet it works fine.
Thanks again, Craig On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: > > Could it simply be that the file that specifies your hostname was lost > during the power outage? Usually /etc/hostname contains the system > name. Do an ls -l and see if the file exists, if it does see what it > contains and whether the permissions are all screwey on it. You may > have to replace it (and any other files that were messed with). > > nathan > > > > > "Craig R. Hodges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I have a fairly simple Debian distrib (mostly hamm) on a computer that I > > can't get to physically. Yesterday, when I attempted to login I got > > > > (null) login: > > > > I entered my username and pass then I was disconnected. I have ssltelent > > and ssleay installed and was telneting in un-encrypted. Now when i attempt > > to telnet in I get the attached error message. If I finger a user (I > > changed to somebody to keep some security) I get (null) in the info. > > (attached). > > -- > Nathan O. Siemers - Transcriptional Profiling, Bioinformatics - > Division of Applied Genomics - Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical > Research Institute - Hopewell Building 3B - P.O. Box 5400, Princeton, > NJ 08543-5400 - 609 818-6568 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
