Ahbaid,

I did try to set up a user account.  But when I do it fails.  I am on the machine as 
root.
It is being done in linuxconf.  Is that wrong??

Steven

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On 6/25/2000 at 10:14 PM Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Question 1: As someone else says it seems as though X is giving you
>grief. I
>am not much help in this area of things...
>
>On Question 2: There is a file  /etc/securetty  which holds the secure
>tty's for use by root. Add the tty's you need to this.. such as tty0,
>tty1 etc.
>
>But be careful, you hav ejust opened up your box to telnet via. root. It
>would be better to setup a user account, telnet as this user and then
>"su -" to root access.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ahbaid.
>
>Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>>    Good Evening, Well first off I would like to thank everyone that
>> helped me try to get my network issue fixed.  I have it running.  So
>> now I havea box on the net for linux.  It is a server, but the
>> question that I have is when I run linuxconf on the screen behind it I
>> get some strangeinformation.  What is tells me is this: Error message
>> from remadmin :Gtk-CRITICAL **: file gtkwidget.c: line 1584
>> (gtk_widget_map) : assertion 'GTK_WIDGET_VISIABLE (widget) == TRUE'
>> Failed. Error message from remadmin :Gtk-CRITICAL **: file
>> gtkwidget.c: line 817 (gtk_widget_map) : assertion
>> 'GTK_WIDGET_VISIABLE (widget) == NULL' Failed. Why is this
>> happening??  I was able to config my network access.  So I am soooo
>> confused, well that does not take much... The other question which is
>> something that I should know, but for some reason I am drawing a
>> complete blank..  I can telnet to my box with a programthat runs under
>> Win 2K, it is called reflection 2.  I get the log in prompt, but if I
>> type inLogin  RootPassword xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It tells me login
>> incorrect.  WHY??  I have root access on the box.  I am currently log
>> in as root, or is that why?  (On the box itself) Thank you for your
>> help. Steven
>
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