Hi all and thanks in advance for helping... I have a box running red hat v7.0, Kernel 2.2.16.22. I can’t login into my machine via console or telnet ... if i try via console, the login prompt appears but not the password prompt ... via telnet, no prompts appear. But fortunately we can properly login via GUI and Single user mode. We need to use console login Any suggestions ...besides reinstalling? Please Help Alok

Yeah. ipchains -l -v -n cat /etc/hosts.deny grep -n "telnet*" /etc/inetd.conf grep -n "telnet*" /etc/xinetd.conf lsof -i -n netcat -z -v localhost 23 Hope you get the idea.

Dumb question but did you try logging into console anyway? All you normally get is login: and then you press enter, then you'll see the password screen

How you can say its a dumb question, while u r unable to solve this problem. Well iam unable to see password prompt on console after hammering Enter key.:-( please help Alok

hi alok, I have the same problem what u have now,but i have installed SERVER,I am not using that telnet,this server act as a mail server for our company. I can get in kde or gnome GUIs but when i try for konsole or text mode ,after entering login ,it is not asking for password. If u got the solution for this ,please send me mail. R.mohan