Well you have probably heard this before, but I may as well fire up the old broken record. telnet aside, you should never have a system open to blind root access from the public. It is alwasy better to come in under a normal user id and just do an su (or su - ) That's my solution to your problem :-). Flame away. Wayner >>> stotsy@xxxxxxxxx 05/09/2004 1:52:49 am >>> Hello all, I have some problems logging in as root from remote telnet in EL v3.0, I changed the login file in pam.d and also rename the /etc/securetty with no success..... Please pive any hint. Stots -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list