Hi,

I cannot telnet to my solaris machine. I tried root and all other users on this machine. When I connect a terminal to my solaris machine via the serial mgt. port, I get the following error messages:

open_pam_conf: owner of /etc/pam.conf...
syslogd: /var/adm/utmpx not owned by root...

"..." represents more information, which I cannot read in my terminal screen.

The interesting part is that other machine (Solaris ) can connect to a shared folder that is on the Solaris machine with the login problem.

Has anyone encountered this problem? If so, please help.

Thanks,
Paul0al

It seams to be a permission problems on some file ...
Who is the owner of the file /var/adm/utmpx
It should be root

I've encountered this problem a few months ago with telnet. My systems use TCP wrappers located on the line in /etc/inetd.conf Not sure if your equipped with this but you may have to configure /etc/host.deny & and /etc/host.allow.

A sample line looks like this:
telnet stream tcp nowait root /usr/bin/tcpwrapper /usr/bin/telnetd -i

Have you ps'd for telnet to determine if the deamon is running. If your using wrappers I don't think it will show up as telnet daemon. I would first check /etc/inetd.conf file; it may be "#" out. If it is there and not marked out look at the path line to determine if its using tcp wrappers. If it is you will need to configure host.deny & host.allow

Hope this helps more than hurts

later
ARK